The post that was quoted here has been removedan interesting sideline to this kind of result is that people who would be falling over themselves to discredit the tests if they showed Europeans to have higher IQ don't seem to be alarmed at all when they work out the other way.
there was a study done some time back, which i think showed that people from the mountainous regions of central Papua New Guinea had the highest IQs (i would have to go back and check this).
Originally posted by BlackampInsight into the 'Western' psyche: equally prepared to shoot the 'inferior savage' or kow-tow to the 'superior Asian' -- because it's the 'scientific' thing to do.
an interesting sideline to this kind of result is that people who would be falling over themselves to discredit the tests if they showed Europeans to have higher IQ don't seem to be alarmed at all when they work out the other way.
there was a study done some time back, which i think showed that people from the mountainous regions of central Papua New Guinea had the highest IQs (i would have to go back and check this).
Clearly the Western-biased IQ test weights factors that overlap with aspects of the as-yet unwritten (I think) Eastern-biased IQ test.
Oddly fitting that Papua New Guineans should come out smartest, 'Guns, Germs & Steel' was inspired by them.
Originally posted by pawnhandlerIQ has very little to do with mathematical computations.
How is the ability to grasp and perform mathmatical computations "in line with Western thought and practices?" Isn't multiplication the same everywhere, or does 6 x 3 mean something else in Eastern thought and practice?
Originally posted by Bosse de Nagehmmm, not so sure. the West certainly seemed keen enough to colonise Asia, rather than kowtow: the Brits in Malaya (inc. Singapore), India, forced concessions in China, and Burma; the Dutch in the East Indies; the Portuguese in Goa and Macau; the French in Indochina; the Spanish in the Philippines; the US displacing the Spanish there, and forcing Japan into trade concessions.
Insight into the 'Western' psyche: equally prepared to shoot the 'inferior savage' or kow-tow to the 'superior Asian' -- because it's the 'scientific' thing to do.
also Western portrayals of Asia(ns) tend or perhaps tended (at least, according to Edward Said) to 'feminise' the East.
