[quote]EvenIfItsSushi wrote:
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
[quote]EvenIfItsSushi wrote:
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
The Kepelle median/mode IQ is 67, which is right in the middle of “moderate” Downs’ Syndrome IQ for Westerners. This low IQ is pretty common for this particular shithole corner of a shithole continent. An Western average 100 IQ person is a fricking super genius there, with .1% of the people having that IQ.
In short, they are idiots and do idiotic things.[/quote]
This statement is so absolutely stupid.
How would you expect someone with crappy education to perform on an IQ test designed for someone with some education.
The issue here is lack of education not some inherent racial difference in intelligence.[/quote]
#1 They used all sorts of IQ tests, including non-written ones. All pretty much come out the same.
#2 It’s not “racial,” despite what race-obsessed liberals like you think. There are lots of factors that go into intelligence, from hygiene, to prenatal care, to the fact that most women in Liberia have STDs that rot the brain of their kids. Regardless of the cause, the end result is an IQ of 67.
Seriously Pittbull, your liberal talking point bullshit is old and stupid.
I think you need to go on a fact-finding-tour of Liberia and figure it out. We’ll all chip in for a one-way-ticket to your paradise of Liberia.[/quote]
Not Pittbull. Also I’m not really a liberal more a pragmatist.
With respect to #1 I wonder how we would do on an IQ test devised by a Liberian villager? Are the skills required to live there different to those required to live in a western country?
Your point #2 was what I was getting at. Education level probably dominates that list though. Prenatal care and general nutrition level throughout childhood must be huge factors as well. Having said this… The statement ‘most women in Libera have STDs’… Is any reference for it?
Regardless the problem in Africa is largely (wilful) ignorance rather than low IQ. In other African countries where ebola is more common they manage quite well i.e. effective quarantine (see for example the other ebola outbreak that occurred this summer that is already over). Also some areas in the currently affected countries have managed to stop ebola spreading.
What scares me more right now is the complete inability of western countries to implement basic quarantine measures (i.e. letting that nurse get on a plane, washing the sick down a drain, sending the US patient 0 back home, the total clusterfuck that happened when some suspected patients turned up in hospitals in London recently, the fact that patients with suspected ebola are actually going to hospital rather than calling up and getting collected by people in full rubber suits, letting health workers return from afflicted regions and just mingle freely etc) the list goes on with a level of incompetence that staggers me.[/quote]
Agreeing with Sushi here, without contributing to a huge threadjack debating the IQ of the indigenous people - I’m a School Psychologist. You can’t make a lot of assumptions about the intelligence of a group of people who are so different from the normative sample for which these tests were designed. They are sooo different in terms of experience, culture, educational level, on and on.
AND you can get into a huge discussion about what defines intelligence, and abstract concept which very few people can agree on anyway, and the impact of biology and environmental factors. Is it the knowledge you have? Your ability to learn new information? Both? There are lots of studies and it’s a very complicated topic. Let’s not go there.
If you are interested in the history of Liberia, and the former slaves from the US who chose to go back there and try to found a democratic government based on the US constitution - and the huge coup that happened in 1980 and subsequent bloodbath, go read The House at Sugar Beach by Helen Cooper. Excellent read.
Back to Ebola news. It looks like the Yale grad student has tested negative. We’ll take it! Good test run for everybody there I’m sure.