It's time we asked WHY other countries are so poor

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  1. vman12

    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    IQ, followed by how corrupt the country is.

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    You do know that ~40 million Americans live in poverty...about 12.5% of the US.
     
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    Interesting, the more religious the country, the lower the IQ, the more social, especially some national type healthcare system, the higher the IQ.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I've said this before and I'll say it here:
    In many ways the U.S. is like a First World country existing side by side combined together with a Third World country.
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah Europe is historically non-religious.
     
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    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    Oops, I thought the IQ represented today's world, not history.
     
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    reallybigjohnson Banned

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    Other countries are poor cause they are filled with forners. USA is the greatest country in space cause its filled with 'Mericans.....mostly.
     
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    Im calling shennanigans on that map. All the people in tech support on the phones are from India or Pakistan. I think something like 90% of doctors are also from India as well as 90% of the worlds worst movies.
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How well does it work out when you call tech support in India or Pakistan?
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah because IQ has changed drastically in todays world vs a few hundred years ago.

    Oh wait, no, it's the same.
     
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    Ok touche.
     
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    It helps if you can define poverty?? Poverty on the world stage is defined differently from in the US. And why should we be surprised to find lots of poverty around the world? We have developed nations, developing nations, and nations with nearly no development...all starting at different times, all having different forms of government and freedom, etc. Why are Louisiana and Mississippi in the US so poor?
     
  13. LafayetteBis

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    South Africa did what?

    It is in very deep sneakers ... and
    You don't seem to understand that the Great Recession was DECLARED as significant economic downturn comparable with past recessions such as that in the final BushTheSon years just before Obama acceded to the presidency!

    You call 10% "low unemployment"? What planet do you live on?

    From the Bureau of Labor Statistics time-series (here):
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    Try harder ... !
     
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    I misread your post... I read... No durable.... instead of No! Durable.... :)

     
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    Who "they". You have bad dreams at night.

    Income Disparity in the US has been known for the past half-century. It has worsened significantly ever since Reckless Ronnie reduced upper-income taxation during his tenure of office.

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    ehh it wasn't me...I didn't post that quote ....
     
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    I agree that the IQ map is nonsense.
     
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    Yep. IQs do change over time/evolution.
    When religion leaves the mainstream, societies IQs will increase.
    One thinking that eating of an Apple is the cause for all the worlds troubles is limiting one's critical thinking skills.
     
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    Yeah except they haven't, your ridiculous theory aside.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't believe the correlation between religion and wealthy countries is necessarily a fair one. If you remove all the White English-speaking countries and Western Europe from the map, and also remove China and Japan, that correlation between atheism and higher IQ on the world map goes away.

    These are basically just two global cultures we are talking about. Those in the Western European tradition and East Asia (Northeast Asia to be more specific).
     
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    He made it up to avoid acknowledging reality.
     
  22. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Obviously.

    But I believe these types of theories are fair and valid in this thread.
    I'm open to theories and wild speculation that may not be my own.
     
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    Yep, they have.

    Since IQ, or intelligence quotient, tests have been revised and standardized several times in the past 100 years, to see the Flynn effect, scientists have their volunteers take tests designed for previous generations. Flynn and his colleagues have found that all around the world, the new generations score higher on the old tests than the original test takers did.

    The increases are no small matter, either — they vary by geography, but tend to be around three extra IQ points per decade. [Creative Genius: The World's Greatest Minds]
    https://www.livescience.com/37095-humans-smarter-or-dumber.html
     
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    Of course. People can propose whatever nonsense they'd like. Of course I can also point to the ridiculousness of it just as easily.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yet the IQ scores in the U.S. have been consistently going down over the years.

    Maybe the rest of the world is sending the U.S. its lower IQ people?
    (Well at least that seems to be the case coming from Latin America)
     
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