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"68" the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africa say researchers

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    http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/lynn2010.pdf

    Why does virtually every scientific study of Sub-Saharan African IQ come up with the same results? Researchers from the University of Ulster and Ross University in Dominica examined the average IQ in sub-Saharan Africa. The results help explain the perpetual problems that every single sub-Saharan nation has been experiencing since white rule ended. I think we have reached a point when blaming "natures differences" on white racism is starting to look pathetic; the scratching and clawing of guilty white liberals to sabotage studies like this is becoming more and more futile, eventually Truth has a way of finding its way past the censors.
     
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    I fail to see the point?

    Even if this is true and they have a lower average IQ, I still have to ask, so what?

    Are you advocating elimination of them or something?

    News flash: It turns out that Orca's are actually smarter than dolphins.... Who cares
     
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    Maybe, it is time to study more than "IQ" and find out how the people in that part of the world have been affected by many things throughout history.

    And anyone who thinks the figures you've related here somehow define the 'worth' or actual potential ability of those people as a whole, is indeed off the mark.
     
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    You mean countries with no knowledge of prenatal care have citizens with lower cognitive ability later in life?

    Tell me again, which party wants to cut prenatal and early childhood programs?
     
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    Right. Seems that something more needs to be asked or investigated. Can those scores be improved? I'm virtually certain they can be over time. And I'm sure that is NOT what some people want to consider or promote.
     
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    Prenatal care has absolutely nothing to do with IQ.

    Nice try though
     
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    Spot-on!! These dog-whistle threads people come up with are disgustingly annoying. They think they are saying something more profound, than this:

    I put this up here because I'm a RACIST, and couldn't say it any other way.
     
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    Of course, those with a racist mindset... don't want to consider data or findings such as the above.
     
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    Or for that matter, countries will appallingly awful education systems and economic systems more akin to fuedalism.
     
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    - Doesn't the Bible say all men have been created equal?
    - IQ tests, SAT etc repeatedly show higher scores for Asians then for Americans. Does that mean Americans as a race are simply dumber than Asians?
     
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    Orcas are the largest member of the dolphin family. :nerd:
     
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    Great point!!
     
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    Throw in the fact that plenty of studies have shown IQ to have a cultural bias. What is an intuitive question for people of one culture is not necessarily an intuitive question for people of another.

    Which might explain why all the OP's examples are at least 20 years old.
     
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    "Americans as a race".

    :disbelief:

    I'd be a bit more cautious about throwing jabs. I'd also question why you do not believe it is hypocritical to ask such a 'question' while tacitly claiming you're not the one who is racist.
     
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    Very astute consideration.
     
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    So? Does that mean they have the same IQ's?
     
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    Probably because he clearly doesn't believe that line of racist logic; he's merely exposing the hypocrisy and bigotry of your own thought process.
     
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    Duly noted.
     
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    that means they are dolphins.

    what you said was like "beagles are smarter than dogs".
     
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    Is that why north Asians consistently outperform Europeans on their own "Euro-centric" IQ tests??? :eyepopping:
     
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    Aahhh I see your point. I'm a historian, not a biologist hehe
     
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    I don't think virtually every study does find that, but feel free to come up with evidence.

    Now why don't you and all the other smarter white people (yeah right), go and try to live in Sub-Saharan African desert for a month, without finance or developed world equipment and food, then come back and tell me how far your hugely smart brain gets you in a country where that type of western-based "intelligence" isn't what's required for survival.
     
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    that means they are dolphins.

    what you said was like "beagles are smarter than dogs".
     
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