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Post by rhino on Mar 18, 2014 8:15:12 GMT -5
^exactly, as long as it doesn't come off as hate speech and you can back it up with science it should be no problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZ11VVdP_M The people with the lowest IQ were Australian Aboriginals and Bushmen according to this man.
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Post by Reticulatus on Mar 18, 2014 19:49:42 GMT -5
Statistics are statistics... What a touchy concept though.
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Post by rhino on Mar 19, 2014 22:26:30 GMT -5
What are your thoughts, retic and vd
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Post by Reticulatus on Mar 20, 2014 8:36:22 GMT -5
The numbers speak, honestly. I don't think IQ is everything and all humans deserve respect and equal rights. In the same hand though they should be held to the same social standard. So I guess I agree with the stats but not the implications.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Mar 21, 2014 17:37:21 GMT -5
My thoughts are generally along the lines of retic's
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Post by rhino on Mar 21, 2014 19:58:30 GMT -5
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Post by rhino on Mar 21, 2014 20:07:31 GMT -5
My thoughts are generally along the lines of retic's Honestly humanity as a whole is much stupider than we were 100 years ago even. Because we no longer use our intelligence to survive. Technology and essential services do everything for us. Many people today don't grow their own food for goodness sake!
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Post by Reticulatus on Mar 21, 2014 21:45:40 GMT -5
We are soft that's for sure but stupider, Idk. I don't grow my own food or make my own clothes ect... but I do know how to accomplish those things. I spent three months in a tent before without technology of any sort, it was very hard but the human will is set to persevere.
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Post by rhino on Mar 23, 2014 3:23:18 GMT -5
Also notice in the video presentation, Taylor mentions how the most heavily colonized African countries are now among the strongest while those that were never colonized are among the poorest. news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2013/12/03/east-asia-dominates-top-of-pisa-rankings.aspx East Asians dominate PISA rankings. Shanghai students score so high they are not even on the chart. A good friend of mine told me that the Chinese students were among the smartest students at his school. The numbers speak, honestly. I don't think IQ is everything and all humans deserve respect and equal rights. In the same hand though they should be held to the same social standard. So I guess I agree with the stats but not the implications. True enough.
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Post by rhino on Mar 23, 2014 3:33:56 GMT -5
We are soft that's for sure but stupider, Idk. I don't grow my own food or make my own clothes ect... but I do know how to accomplish those things. I spent three months in a tent before without technology of any sort, it was very hard but the human will is set to persevere. We are definitely not getting smarter. There is a 1912 American 8th grade test archived at a museum that most adults would struggle to solve today. Except the history, geography questions, I found it pretty hard myself.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Mar 24, 2014 21:31:06 GMT -5
Humanity has a whole is almost infinitely smarter than it was 100 years ago, you could maybe claim individually, you might be able to make a case but on the whole we are much smarter.
Asians are pressured more and so do better in school, I have not met a single Asian person who's overall intellect surpasses my own but their effort towards school far exceeds mine.
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Post by rhino on Mar 27, 2014 7:47:43 GMT -5
Humanity has a whole is almost infinitely smarter than it was 100 years ago, you could maybe claim individually, you might be able to make a case but on the whole we are much smarter. Asians are pressured more and so do better in school, I have not met a single Asian person who's overall intellect surpasses my own but their effort towards school far exceeds mine. True. I happen to be Northeast Asian but don't consider myself smart at all. Am feeling quite bleak about my future.
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Post by Reticulatus on Mar 27, 2014 19:15:35 GMT -5
Why? How old are you?
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Post by creature386 on Mar 28, 2014 10:05:06 GMT -5
As for PISA results, please consider that they always change from test to test. Some years ago, Finland has lead the chart and no the Asians. How the results evolve strongly depends on how seriously countries take the tests and how much they improve their education systems. Hence, I think it has very little relevance in this thread.
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Post by rhino on Apr 2, 2014 13:19:16 GMT -5
Early 20's. Got fairly decent grades in high school but don't have much going for me.
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