What do you think if racial differences in IQ and how do you think we could explain them through the lens of evolution ?
The bell curve
Gabriel Myers
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Parker Richardson
A better question would how much does culture contribute to IQ? That's something we can actually attempt to fix without eugenics.
Yes It's mostly genetic, but I always wonder if the difference between East Asian IQs and European IQs can be explained by culture.
Asian countries seem to be more rigorous ans soulless, with kids getting forced to go to cram school.
While European countries the attitude is more one of "You studied for your math test? NERD ALERT! NERD ALERT! NERD ALERT!"
The same kind of culture exist for blacks living in white countries, but it's even worse.
Aiden Thompson
Okay, have fun coming up with a proxy for "culture" that everybody agrees with and then quantifying that.
Or you can just take shared+unshared environment instead of "culture" and have it be 1-x where x is the estimated narrow sense heritability, like every behavioral geneticist has done with every single trait including IQ. It's better to just estimate the heritability and then infer the environmentality from that, especially since things like the Abecedarian project showed the relative non-malleability of IQ.
Ryder Lee
But we could ask the same question but the other way around, doesn't IQ dictate the culture ? Because I don't see how since we are all the same, since we can trace back a few ancient ancestor of even a thousand, I don't see why all population wouldn't have developed the same IQ over time. But the question isn't that interesting since culture is only the result of evolution. And that culture of
>"You studied for your math test? NERD ALERT! NERD ALERT! NERD ALERT!"
might be a problem and could lead in a slow down of progress... That culture exist here too (Belgium) but is most observable in "ghetto" schools
Zachary Rivera
But is culture really a factor to take into account ? Since we're talking about in the Bell curve African Americans and East asian american
Andrew King
E.Asian here.
White kids are treated with reason and respect. They learn about real-life consequences of actions at an early age. They develop rationality and this helps their IQ.
I often wonder why Asians have high IQ when they are abused by their society and their parents without being aware. One thing I can tell is that, Asian culture forces people to abide rule and face irrational punishment for not following the rules or given order by the higher people (parents, teachers, boss etc.). Asia has "test" culture (China developed world's first collective testing system to employ government workers), and parents forces the kids to follow this culture and Asian kids do as they are told according to the culture. peer pressure and abuse. Being forced to get good results on exams most likely boosts their IQ, although this also makes them more cunning and selfish like the jews (reason why East Asians usually stay quiet).
Because the IQ factor is due to environment, Asians are not exactly "smarter". In contrast, as Veeky Forums might know, high stress level and depression makes people more depressed and stop thinking complexly. When they are old, they usually develop psychology like that of Arabs in Middle East who stares at white people, think and act impulsively and not consider others well being.
Japs are kind of exception to this because they developed culture of caring for others, though they still have serious issues with quite many people being selfish and bullying due to test culture as well (kids can be really awful because the kindness culture in Japan is literally a "culture", not based on ideology and philosophy like in certain parts of Europe).
Easton Martin
>the IQ factor is due to environment
Just stop. Admixture studies, adoption studies, sub-test heritability, worldwide prevalence of gaps prove otherwise.
Brody Collins
You cannot increase your IQ, but you can keep people with "high IQ genes" stupid. Goes back to what I was saying here That I asserted that both Asians and Europeans have similar "intelligence potential", it's just that Europeans in lesser extend force to develop it.
Jose Young
Japanese culture is what all should strive to be in the sense that one could leave a bike outside unchained all night and still have it there next morning. I wonder how Japs feel when the go to Paris on vacation and see all the """"""""french""""""""" behave.
Landon Johnson