Intelligence is Genetic

[Baler]

Originally Posted by katrik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Focus, dear. Two different things.

sorry I get excitable..

The Study in the OP is in china where they have a population over 1 billion. Different standards for living and over avg a much higher college success rate.
I don't think it's applicable to compare it to America. Also there was a period of time where china didn't communicate with the outside world. That is part of their genetics.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The Study in the OP is in china where they have a population over 1 billion. Different standards for living and over avg a much higher college success rate.
I don't think it's applicable to compare it to America. Also there was a period of time where china didn't communicate with the outside world. That is part of their genetics.

Keep in mind China might be one country, but it's not one gene pool. There were hundreds of different peoples that all got conquered over China's history, and they didn't all get killed, so their genes got mixed in.

So even if China barred entry to foreigners for a few years, A) they were plenty diverse to start, B) that period was only a tiny speck in terms of evolutionary time.

Honestly a much bigger "anti-diversity" effect came much earlier in China's history. Ghengis Khan had A LOT of offspring, so many in fact that like 1 in 200 people on the entire planet are descended from him (and obviously China has an even higher ratio).

[Baler]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ghengis Khan had A LOT of offspring, so many in fact that like 1 in 200 people on the entire planet are descended from him (and obviously China has an even higher ratio).

This is actually a great point I'd totally forgotten about.