Gorilla National Empowerment
I ‘ve been miserably mulling over the comparison of South Africa’s national average IQ with those of Koko the Gorilla , according to which we are certainly dumber than an ape.
Then I had a brainwave. All we have to do is to secretly administer creatine, which boosts IQ significantly in the nation’s mealiepap, and Bob’s your Uncle, a nation of Empowered People.
There’s got to be something wrong with my logic there.
Oh well, at least it serves to diffuse the road rage-just imagine all those tin boxes on wheels being manipulated by a country of Kokos.
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It’s quite important to remember that Lynn and Vanhanen (“IQ and the Wealth of Nations”, for which the data was collected) didn’t rely on single sets of results-many countries’ results were taken from several independent tests, including Raven’s progressive Matrices, and the Weschler Tests , which are strongly culture-dependant . Lynn and Vanhanen’s data has further been quoted in this paper, by Jones and Schneider, lest one be tempted to pass the work off as sheer right-wing bigotry.
I’m not necessarily agreeing with it-I know far too little for that- but I can’t tar Lynn’s data with the same brush as I would like to paint him.
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