How to encourage Middle Class to have more children without over encouraging the poor

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  1. raytri

    raytri Well-Known Member

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    The average IQ score in Equatorial Guinea is 59, which is in the zone for mental retardation.

    Do you honestly believe the average Guinean is mentally retarded? Or do you suppose there is something flawed about IQ tests?
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Why didn't you link the data? Is it because you were know stupid people (let's call them "alt-right") wouldn't be able to find the source and just blindly accept it? Why don't you want to voice your conclusions here? Are you afraid? You're not alone. I've found many racists to be low IQ, have low education and very low self-esteem.

    For those interested, the source of the graph: https://iq-research.info/en/average-iq-by-country

    The methodology is highly questionable since it's based on income, not IQ testing.
     
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    The link is the photo.

    Boy, talk about embarrassing.

    You insult people's intelligence while owning yourself.

    Good job.
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I readily admit to being flawed, even stupid at times, but that picture doesn't link to the source of data as I linked in my post. I'll let others decide for themselves which of us is the most retarded.
     
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    Disease, nutrition, climate, parasitic effects, education, violence, vitamin deficiencies, iron deficiency, pollution, lead poisoning, illiteracy and genetics:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2614/

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289611000572

    http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/06/29/rspb.2010.0973
     
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    Yes, it does.

    Would you like a shovel and a helmet.
     
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    We're only a couple of hundred years from that ourselves. Smart people know that making such comparisons is a silly as a HS graduate bragging how superior he is to his 6 year old brother. Sad. Very sad. It tells me some people needed more attention as children, otherwise they wouldn't have such low self-esteem issues.
     
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    Disagreed, but I'm sure smart people know the difference and equally confident your Beta male friends will agree with you.

    No thanks. No need. Give it to one of your fellow members of your "circle".
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well you can try to disbelieve reality all you'd like.

    You might want to stop doing that, someone told me it's a hallmark feature of racists.
     
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    Then you should go whine at the people who conducted the studies.
     
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    No need to whine. Unlike you, I actually posted the link to the website and read it. I disagree with their methodology. You seem to agree that income defines IQ. Do you also agree that all of the low-income beta males marching in support of Trump are low IQ using the same methodology?

    Here, follow the picture links. :D
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    Functionally yes. They're effectively brain damaged from malnutrition, disease, and all the other things I listed in the studies you didn't bother reading.
     
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    I'm sure all the people from Guniea appreciated your help in locating the link that is built into the image.
     
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    What reality? Your white supremacist alt-right reality or the data?
     
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    Only a leftist would ask what reality I was talking about.
     
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    Oh I see.

    You disagree with one of the scientific markers that correlate to IQ that has been established by the experts in the field.

    You should send them a strongly worded letter along with some tips on how to find the link associated with a linked photo on a forum website.

    Nice picture book.
     
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    *Sigh. * That’s ridiculous. They would not have a functioning society if the average IQ was that low.

    Zambians are poor and often uneducated, but environmental factors like the ones you cite don’t knock 30 points off of an entire nation’s IQ.

    I refer you again to the study in Zambia that found much better performance on tests when the Zambians were allowed to draw the answers using materials they were familiar with, rather than pencil and paper. The test was EXACTLY THE SAME, except for the medium used to provide the answer. That is concrete proof that the TEST was the problem. Not environmental factors.
     
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    LOL. Disagreed, but thanks for helping to prove to others the true nature of your character.
     
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    Subsaharan Africa has functioning societies? They don't even know how to make clean water. Starvation and disease are rampant. HALF of the population of Africa is 15 or YOUNGER.

    There are a FEW countries in Africa that are doing ok, but not many.

    We've been over the pencil and paper thing. If you don't have pencil and paper in your culture it is self explanatory why you failed your IQ test.
     
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    You're welcome to continue the ad homs, just try not to talk about anything specific. You'll just own yourself again.
     
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    First, you obviously know little to nothing about measuring IQ. Given the level of your posting, that is easily understandable.

    Second, while they were valid researchers, their methodology, specifically the use of economic development to measure national IQ, is controversial at best and deeply flawed at worst.

    Lastly, below is a link to the basics of measuring IQ. While I strongly doubt you'll read it, much less understand it, I'm sure some others will do so for their own education: https://study.com/academy/lesson/me...ce-interpreting-an-iq-scores-score-range.html
     
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    Your imagination is interesting, sir. Where are the "ad homs"?
     
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    Actually I did read it, because I knew that you didn't read it.

    Of course, I was proven correct because at the part where you'd have to scroll down you have to be a member to read the whole thing.

    I warned you about being too specific and owning yourself, yet here we are again.

    I like how it's written so simply though, so that anyone could understand it.
     
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    Great! Since you claim to have read the entire article, please detail the pros and cons to their methodology for measuring national IQ. I anxiously await your insights, sir.
     

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