Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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@CheeseOfMasters on average, yes. Even within the same ethnicities and families, because there is a (small) environmental influence on IQ. Most of the effect is due to genetics, of course. As for the environment, it really matters that a child grows up without malnutrition. It’s really bad to grow up with an iodine insufficiency, for example. That’s exactly why we add iodine to salt in large parts of the world. That, and the physical effects of severe iodine deficiency can be really nasty. Other negative effects are from diseases and parasites. It really matters that the water is clean, that we have vaccines against measles, that the food is clean, and that people (mostly) wash their hands.
But I am sure you sat down and studied all this before you got on your high horse, didn’t you?
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@CheeseOfMasters “I do have some idea about these topics” and “simply put, a false statement” don’t really match, given that the reality is that IQ is largely genetic and that (of course) different populations have different average IQs. Of course, because their evolutionary pressure haven’t been the same. Of course, because their genetic bottle necks have been different. Of course, because they haven’t had the same mutations. And, of course, those differences have been measured. Many, many times. Across more than a century. We also know many of the genes involved, but nowhere near enough to predict individual IQ well from a DNA test. We can predict it, but only poorly.
This has been scientifically studied since the late 1800’s and the science simply doesn’t match your prejudice. Sorry, but I’m on team science.
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@thinkpolhub maybe, but Nigerian-Nigerians are not doin so well. Looking at immigrants is a statistical cheat because of selective migration (and Nigerian-Americans aren’t doing nearly as well as you think). There is a limit to the usefulness of education. If it really worked, we would have incredibly skillful people in the West with the percentage of people we put through college… but we don’t. We exhausted the talent reserve decades ago.
Learning reading, writing, ‘rithmetic is extremely useful. Learning a common language, be it English, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Mandarin, or the standard dialect of a language one already speaks, is extremely useful. After that, we quickly hit diminishing returns.
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