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Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

Look, the noble lie is that all men are created equal. The equality does not arise in all things in all ways at all times, but is nevertheless a fundamental axiom of law.

Science cannot help us here.

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Nowhere Man · Joined: 08 Feb 2004

Right,

So, here are the 10 IQ-est countries in the world:

1 Hong Kong 107
2 South Korea 106
3 Japan 105
4 Taiwan 104
5 Singapore 103
6 Austria 102
6 Germany 102
6 Italy 102
6 Netherlands 102
10 Sweden 101

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations

Here are the 10 wealthiest countries:

1 Luxembourg 104,390
2 Norway 84,543
3 Qatar[4] 74,422
4 Switzerland 67,074
5 Denmark 55,113
6 Australia 54,869
7 Sweden 47,667
8 United Arab Emirates 47,406
9 United States 47,132
10 Netherlands 46,418

If we factor in the opinions of tax accountants with snide opinions of EFL teachers, socialism, and space exploration and divide by the imminent Islamic tsunami posed to wipe out the West, the list looks likes this:

1. Canada

and

1. Canada

Menino80 · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Location: Hodor?

The real question here is what causes what? There's obviously a correlation between wealth and IQ, I don't think anyone has even tried to look at causation. This can be applied to anything really, especially work ethic, an incredibly loaded idea for the "Goofus and Gallant" economic moralisers on the American right.

I will quote Ha-Joon Chang, a favorite economist of mine:

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

smee18 · Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Location: Korea

There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation's population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into an image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.

... richest country in the world.

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Either race is a social construct or society is a racial construct. Hard to know. I was in Memphis this week.

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So the wife and I are in the market for a dog. I want a calm, big dog. I'm thinking weimaraner or lab (white, of course). Wife wants a big, aggressive dog (doberman) cause I travel tons. I guess we should split the difference and get a chihuahua, cause the breeds are a breedist social construct?

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Here's Derb, speaking to the Black Law Students' Association (BLSA) of the University of Pennsylvania Law School:

http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/HumanSciences/upennlaw.html