And what is the variable

The destruction of the ethnic homogeneity of Europe is atleast something worth considering, we see what happened in Yugoslavia

Whether that is

As a result of the refusal to integrate within ethnic communities

Or actual genetics

Ethnicity means nothing, cultural compatibility is everything.

Both are interesting

Why do you think ethnicity means nothing?

Out of curiosity

Because identity with the culture plays a far more important role.

Considering intelligence is linked to genetics, why would it be hard to believe that some other social and psychological traits might be the same way

Which might evolve over time into distinct cultures

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Today in “Giant Leaps of Logic”

Is that a giant leap

It's a fucking giant oversimplification of genetics for a start.

It really is

Outside of outright genetic conditions, intelligence has an insane degree of variables that effect it, nevermind that intelligence is somewhat subjective.

A country with a high degree of agricultural resources will always have a higher base IQ than one with greater industrial resources for instance. look at north and south korea for instance.

Actually, now that you mention it, thats a really good example

I think you are assuming correlation is causation here

I'm really not. If you can't eat, your brain won't be working at peak performance.

Maybe the environment in more agriculturally suitable areas creates a climate where natural selection picks more intelligent people

Where are areas with this less so, like sub-Saharan Africa, physical capabilities are more important for reproductive success

That argument could definitely be made

Why are people that don't have access to regular and stable sources of nutrition shorter? why when those countries gain sustainable agricultural resources have the average height increased?

That is fair

same thing works with the capacity of the brain.

They’re putting chemicals in the grain, that turns the frickin midgets tall, do you understand that

Ok, so why do certain ethnic groups living in the West still have lower average IQs than other groups

Inbreeding

That's a good question.

If it is inbreeding then it is genetic kek

I thought we were talking about there being multiple influence on intellegence

That would imply that there would be more that one factor @Deleted User ?

Well there's a shit ton of factors. intelligence is complicated.

IQ is changed very little by the level of education

@Cream Man
It's the environment

What about cultural attitudes though? I think it would be interesting to compare the IQ of people that maintain a british identity with those from the same culture without.

it's literarry on the same paper that talks about heritability

the author compares it to height, who also have a high heritability and it's also heavily influenced by environment