tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post6720597712888176367..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: Recent cognitive evolution in West Africa: the Niger's rolePeter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-91725777503388217272022-05-20T07:40:03.431-04:002022-05-20T07:40:03.431-04:00''@Santocool
IQ pretty much IS intelligen...''@Santocool<br /><br />IQ pretty much IS intelligence, this is not a HBD belief.<br /><br />To deny this is to deny cognitive science itself.''<br /><br />IQ is a test. It's the same as saying that weight balance is weight. Weight is not just the amount of mass, but also how it is distributed throughout the body, in addition to other variables,as height-interaction.<br /><br />Your sentence just proves that HBD, from your IQ cult, is another pseudoscience passing off as knowledge.<br /><br />I'm not denying high IQ test relevance. <br /><br />I'm just not saying that: Scores on IQ tests accurately reflect all facets of human intelligence. <br /><br />Another cult, a specialty of the ''white man''.<br /><br />If i make an IQ test, it won't tell me how rational, emotionally intelligent, and/or creative I am.<br /><br />If I take an IQ test and score high on verbal IQ, it won't tell me if I'll become a writer or if I have the same talent to become one, one of the greats, especially.<br /><br />These tests are starting points for analyzing intelligence, not ending.<br /><br />There are a lot of high-IQ people who aren't very creative, rational, and/or emotionally intelligent. If not most of them.Santocoolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-82466481331836227732022-05-14T13:19:03.399-04:002022-05-14T13:19:03.399-04:00@Santocool
IQ pretty much IS intelligence, this i...@Santocool<br /><br />IQ pretty much IS intelligence, this is not a HBD belief.<br /><br />To deny this is to deny cognitive science itself.lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600107597161260351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-49238146972847863322022-05-09T07:42:30.654-04:002022-05-09T07:42:30.654-04:00''I agree that HBD writers focus too much ...''I agree that HBD writers focus too much on intelligence.''<br /><br />No, no.<br /><br />HBD focuses too excessively on IQ, not intelligence.<br />Furthermore, they seem to rarely take into account differences in subtests.<br /><br />''On the other hand, "educational attainment" is the largest pool of data available''<br /><br />I didn't know that scientists are forbidden to produce theories, hypotheses, speculate, use logical thinking. I didn't know they were absolutely data-dependent.<br /><br />Obviously there is a positive correlation. However, you know very well that there are many scientists who, despite their higher IQs, are simply not good scientists.<br /><br />Most of them are in the human sciences, but do not doubt that there are many others in other areas, not to mention those who work in socially prestigious professions, such as doctors, who are not good professionals, whether due they lack of clinical insight, of perceptive ability or character.<br /><br />IQ is excellent for evaluating human intelligence superficially and in a comparative sense, but it is not self-sufficient.<br /><br />''it's essentially a proxy for cognitive ability (as well as ability to brown-nose the teacher and sit still at your desk).''<br /><br />That is, uncritical conformity with authorities.<br /><br />And you didn't answer the question about the Igbos.<br /><br />Santocoolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-58589133003886406832022-05-08T11:41:10.786-04:002022-05-08T11:41:10.786-04:00Anon,
Economic success = high intelligence X high...Anon,<br /><br />Economic success = high intelligence X high-trust environment.<br /><br />The Igbo do well in the UK because they get the best of both worlds.<br /><br />Luke,<br /><br />Good to see you back!<br /><br />Hoekomsa,<br /><br />This comes back to my first point. Intelligence is not the only factor in creating an advanced society. There is also the creation of a high-trust environment.<br /><br />Santocool,<br /><br />I agree that HBD writers focus too much on intelligence. On the other hand, "educational attainment" is the largest pool of data available, and it's essentially a proxy for cognitive ability (as well as ability to brown-nose the teacher and sit still at your desk).Peter Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-16664508109540246022022-05-06T10:10:14.822-04:002022-05-06T10:10:14.822-04:00Because of the HBD belief that IQ equals intellige...Because of the HBD belief that IQ equals intelligence, there is no interest in researching polygenic scores for creative ability and achievement as well for rationality [ability to think impartially and objectively = not to be confused with antisocial personality disorder].<br /><br />To enrich your research with terms that are exceptionally important to human intelligence.<br /><br />Santocoolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-90214846038070858212022-05-06T10:03:35.954-04:002022-05-06T10:03:35.954-04:00It would be more interesting to analyze polygenic ...It would be more interesting to analyze polygenic scores at the individual, family and subgroup levels.<br /><br />In any case, it seems that the convergent academic excellence of this population is not related to the divergent academic excellence, of ''achievement rate'',waiting...<br /><br />What should be the average Igbo population in Africa?Santocoolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-65345025681462919142022-05-03T03:57:23.041-04:002022-05-03T03:57:23.041-04:00from personal experience they turn their intellige...from personal experience they turn their intelligence into crookery and scammingHoekomsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06592721107045139509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-50213278344165280512022-05-02T13:56:09.505-04:002022-05-02T13:56:09.505-04:00Fascinating. Thanks.Fascinating. Thanks.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-54824617397567659892022-05-01T05:55:30.864-04:002022-05-01T05:55:30.864-04:00Like much of what I read about polygenic scores, t...Like much of what I read about polygenic scores, this seems to fit with the hereditarian hypothesis. Someone needs to tell Pfiffer to get those Igbo scores.<br /><br />I followed some of the debates with Chisala. This seems to support the side that you, Lynn, etc. are on. His original articles seemed to argue that the IQ issue should no longer be seen as a "black-white" thing. The polygenic scores seem to support the idea that west Africans are not a monolith. This seems consistent with what Cochrane-Harpending argued - recent acceleration of human evolution and gene-culture coevolution.<br /><br />If the Yoruba = African American then perhaps the Igbo are even higher, possibly equaling British whites in terms of polygenic scores. Or at least they could be somewhere in between, getting a boost in terms of the U.K. data from other factors: eugenic immigration, test coaching, test fraud (e.g. identity - not uncommon in MANY cultures e.g. East Asian not just Nigerian). It's hard to appreciate just how high-trust NW Euro cultures are when you've been immersed in them your whole life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com