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Why can we talk about PISA results, comparing the performance of students in school, but we are not allowed to talk about differences in IQ? Bring this subject up, and you are immediately accused of racism. And yet. And yet, if there are substantial differences in intellectual capability, might this not explain some of the world's problems?
An update of a massive "study of studies" is underway; this article summarizes the work to date, and provides links to the work in progress. A quick summary of the answers to the questions no one dares ask:
- Eastern Asia (Japan, China): IQ around 105
- Europe/North America: IQ around 98
- Middle East: IQ around 85
- Africa: IQ around 70
In the first instance, it doesn't even matter why there are differences. They may be genetic, or disease related, or nutrition related, or something else. If these differences are real (and the evidence is pretty strong that they are), then we need to deal with them. Imagine if the low IQs in Africa turn out to be fixable - what would the impact be, if we could raise the IQ of an entire continent by 30 points?!
Sticking our collective heads in the sand, because the topic is not PC, is not going to solve any problems.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 03 2017, @12:55AM (1 child)
It hasn't always been such a forward-thinking nation:
First nation's children were taken from their families then sent to boarding school so they could learn all about white society without having any influence from the culture they were born into.
The Inuit used to live off the seals they hunted. Now they live in comfortable homes that were provided by the government. The result of no longer having satisfying work led to the problem of their children inhaling gasoline vapor from Hefty bags.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by quacking duck on Friday November 03 2017, @04:37PM
And the "result of no longer having satisfying work" can be laid at the feet of (mostly-)white, first-world privileged people in organizations like PETA that conflated clubbing of cute baby seals with sustainable seal hunting, leading to the near-total collapse of the industry that allowed Inuit to stay on their ancestral lands while still living a modern lifestyle. And PETA are still at it, trying to force indigenous peoples restaurants to close because they serve seal, and naively claiming those living in the north can just change jobs [theguardian.com].
It's not a stretch to say PETA and similar organizations are attempting cultural genocide.