The host of this video had heard from Westerners about the low IQ's of Sub-Saharan Africans, so he assembled a team, obtained funding, and went out onto the streets of Nigeria to select random people and have them take IQ tests to refute what he'd heard. The results, as the host puts it, were "very disappointing." The average score was 73 while the median was 69. I don't know if this was the high score or not, but he said only 3% scored 102 which is the average for whites; while 52% scored below 70. The host even took the test himself just to check that there wasn't something wrong with the test.
Failing to show that Sub-Saharan Africans have comparable IQs to other peoples, the host then goes on to argue that I.Q. does not fully represent an individual's overall intelligence or potential and, so, it is "essential to highlight that this should not be a reason to mock or insult Africans."
Whatever IQ measures, it is related to the ability to function and positively contribute in an advanced economy. And low IQ has a strong correlation to low time preference, impulsivity, and criminality.
So when you hear or read that IQ is dropping in Western countries, realize that this is not because Westerners are getting less intelligent, but reflects immigration from the Third World.
VIDEO: "We Conducted an IQ Test in Nigeria, Africa"
BantuCityDiaries (6 min.)
I'm no scientist but it is obvious to me that the "Out of Africa" model explains present day Sub-Saharan Africans lesser brainpower. Some 200,000 years ago a portion of the African population migrated North into Ice Age Eurasia. Dangerous journey and no doubt many perished...an evolutionary "filter" of sorts. We also have to wonder why some left? Were they more motivated, more intelligent than those who stayed behind? The best and the brightest in Africa circa 200,000 B.P.? In Pleistocene Europe they had to adapt and survive in a hostile climate and compete with the better adapted Neandertals for scarce resources. I think that "test" accelerated intellectual capability...the ability to innovate, to predict and prepare for future events like animal migrations, changing seasons etc. To anticipate scarcity of resources and to prepare for such. Meanwhile, back in the jungle, life remained easy and peoples subsistence habits went unchallenged...unchanged. This is why they were still living Stone Age lifestyles when European explorers arrived in the 15th Century. The globe is vast and the time scale is long enough for humans in different corners of the globe to evolve at different rates. Observations like this aren't "racist" they are scientific.
ReplyDeleteIt's called the "Cold Winters Theory". Here is the link to a 2014 paper ("The relationship between IQ and climatic variables in African and Eurasian countries") which found a correlation between high IQ and lower precipitation, temperature, and nasal index (the width of the nose). (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289614000877)
DeleteYeah, this is pretty rough on them. It's getting hard to hide.
ReplyDeleteThe liberals will ignore it--they aren't interested in the truth, but just in how much they can steal from taxpayers.
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