Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Fat_Elvis]

[Menino80]

[Koveras]

I'm so indignant right now!

[Kuros]

[Koveras]

[Kimbop]

Menin80, I apologize for my vitriol. I did see an issue with "Confucianism leading to prosperity", or whatever you said. Confucianism certinaly does seem to correlate with intelligence, however.

Particularly, I find the chicken-egg dilemma difficult to prove, but there seem to be many correlates.

Anyway; does state led development, or national socialism -- or whatever you want to call it -- really lead to a higher intelligence quotient among a practicing country's people? Or are intelligent, sane people first required, along with the appropriate cultural factors? ie; the opposite of Haitians or Waziristanis.

Democracy can't exist among certain muslim peoples, and I reckon that state-led development also cannot function properly in certain countries.

Also, dumb people tend to make dumb babies, so this has to factor in.

[kcs0001]

The wechsler intelligence test is a generally accepted measure of intelligence. It's an aptitude and IQ test. If you read IQ and the Wealth of Nations
http://www.amazon.com/IQ-Wealth-Nations-Richard-Lynn/dp/027597510X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301266209&sr=8-1

you will find many ironies. Why is Japan the third largest economy on the planet with little in the way native resources- coal, shale, petroleum reserves, copper, silver, or gold ore? Why does Nigeria with a very low IQ base (around 74) have a higher GDP than North Korea with a high IQ base (bell curve) 105?

Toynbee also gives his take on taxonomy in his 1934 work. Also read Albert Schweitzer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

[Konglishman]

[Kuros]

I've read most of The 10,000-Year Explosion. It was a good book, and convinced me that there are various racial differences among different ethnicities around the world. But it also convinced me that favorable alleles do manage to rise to the top given any opportunity for racial intermixing. Also, I'm a lot more sanguine about ancient and medieval warfare, given its opportunity to spread favorable alleles, from the Hyksos to Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan. The authors are very tentative about the final implications of their findings, and I await further evidence and discovery of genetic history and sampling. As it is, the authors only had data on European-American, Far Eastern (Chinese and Japanese), and Nigerian populations.

[kcs0001]

People are desperate for evidence that Charles Murray is wrong. Look, you can make your own choice. People with an IQ of 80 or below tend to be unemployable in a developed economy X-agriculture. The jobs that illegal Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Salvadorans now do are in fact the jobs that African Americans used to do. Instead, the U.S. Gov't pays African Americans not to work- producing things like Detroit, St. Louis, West Memphis, and S. Chicago.

[Menino80]

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[Kuros]

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