I have had debates on here about various issues. One of the debates was about why Africa is always in disarray.
So I talked to a guy from Nigeria and asked him why?
He looked at me and said.
It's simple of why Africa is in bad shape. He said....
Too many difference of opinions of how things should be. He said for example.
In Nigeria. There are over 500 different tribes. With various languages and cultures.
I told him my doctor was from Nigeria to. He said... What is his name.
I told him.
He goes.
Ah... an EBO man with a smile.
I said what's the smile about.
He said.. No offense to your doctor. But we DON'T TRUST EBO guys.
I said why..
He said they are shady and are money hustlers.
I said wow.
He said there are tons of African tribes that HATE EACH other.
Basically he said it's no different than DIE HARD LIBERALS fighting against DIE HARD CONVERSATIVES.
He said.. just imagine if there were 500+ political parties all with various thought processes. He said how much in fighting would there be.
He said. it has nothing to do with intelligence or anything like that.
He said it's all about ego. Such as "Our tribe" is better then your "tribe".
I thought this was interesting.
Interesting, but I would also like to see data on the average IQ in the different African countries.... I'm betting that data is well hidden these days.
Edit: Found it: https://brainstats.com/average-iq-in-nigeria.html
Average IQ in Nigeria is 84.
National IQ Scores:
https://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html
IQ is a bell curve, but explains a lot. Combination of IQ and hormones explains more than most would believe.
None of this means that any individual cannot be an exception to the rule, but the rules are the rules, generally, for mostly biological reasons.
I want to see the link between IQ and willingness to believe IQ makes the world go round. Mid-IQs have the hardest time accepting it. Most libtards and redditors are mid-IQ or slightly above average but believe they are high IQ. Racists exist at both ends of the bell curve, but not in the middle for some reason. I don’t know how you can exist on this planet and observe the world around you and not notice it.
There's a term for that, where people of lower IQ tend to underestimate other people's intelligence, and people with higher IQ tend to overestimate other people's intelligence.
Probably something to it.
I’ve realized over the years that language is a strong indicator of the knowledge mastered by a culture and its values.
Many African tribal languages not only lack the vocabulary to describe mathematics, science, technology, law etc. but they lack words to describe abstract social concepts like duty, obligation or promises. Without the words to express numbers over 100 or negative numbers, how are you going to learn anything about math? When your language doesn’t have common words to describe duty, obligation or promises, it’s a sign that the people speaking that language don’t understand or value those concepts.
Good post.
Most people have lost the ability to look back into deep history and connect the fact that those early hominids are US.
There was no grand conspiracy to make our society patriarchal. Men went out hunted, risked their lives, provided for the females. Females brought the next generation into the world, cared for people, gathered, and held the family/community unit together.
We might think we have come far, but we are for the most part living the roles that we started with with the exception of alot of BS politics confusing the matter.
Imagine if men respected women for their contributions and women respected men for their contributions and everyone just lived the role they were best suited to fill.
Spot on.
The roles of men and women evolved due to differences in biology.
Natrually, since only women can give birth and feed with breast milk, it would make sense for them to assume that role. While they are feeding one young, they likely had many others running around, whether their own or the children of the other women in the tribe. They all worked together to look after and raise the children.
Meanwhile, there is a much different skill set needed to successfully go out into the wilderness, find wild animals, outsmart them, throw rocks, spears, and manufactured weapons to kill the animals, sometimes fighting a physical fight with the animals, avoid being bitten or clawed, and killing the animal. Then carrying or dragging the animal back to the tribe to feed everybody.
Two completely different skill sets. The men had an immediate feedback as to their skills. Either (a) their skills gave them the ability to make the kill and feed themselves and the tribe, or (b) their lack of skills made them go hungry and their tribe either went off with other men or died. They knew in short order how their ideas were working out.
OTOH, women made choices in child rearing that might not be completely known for many years. Was it a good idea to feed the kids this, or to tell them not to do that, or to scold them for such and such? We won't know for many years, when they grow up into adults and we see how they turned out.
Men had to be quiet in the bush, at times, to listen and avoid being detected. Women could jabber all day long. KEK
Today, when women want to buy something, they like to (prior to Internet and Covid) go to the mall and just "browse" whether they buy something or not -- similar to "gathering" nearby fruits off the trees.
Men ususally don't like shopping all that much, and just want to "get in, and get out" kind of like hunting (or sex and then sleep). ;-)
Our biology DICTATED our roles in life.
It was NOTHING MORE -- and NOTHING LESS -- than that.
IQ is overrated.
In reality.
When building a TEAM to do something big.
You need a variety of skillsets win.
Most of the team will need to be able to do EASY TASK that can be repeated by anyone.
This is why most successful organizations can SCALE out their model. WHY?? Because they can train ANYONE off the street to do a task.
McDonald's made a fortune. Because they were able to create a system of scale. That you can take anyone to flip burgers.
Most high IQ genius folks do not work in SALES and MARKETING to push product,
WHY?
Because the common person would not understand complicated tech talk. The common person needs things explained in SIMPLE terms.
So I am not buying that IQ means too much.
You only need a few geniues to do good.
Creativity in the most important.
Why do you think most CEO's do not know anything about technology like writing code.
But still they are leading the tech team to execute a task.
Sure, but Apple Computer is larger than McDonald's and built much more quickly. Different skill set.
Their skill set is in obtaining and directing resources, strategy, capital raising, and motivation. They don't need to know how to write code or flip burgers. Different job, different skill set.
Not really. The CEO is leading upper management, only part of which is leading the tech team. The rest of upper management is leading sales, marketing, finance, legal, and a host of other departments within the entire organization.
IQ is not "be all, end all." I will agree with you on that. But it is also not irrelevant. It is highly relevant at the macro level.
IQ is a stupid FINITE number that doesn't make logical sense to use.
Here is why.
IF I took the IQ test and it said I am an idiot.
IF I got the answers to the test and someone explained to me why I got the problems wrong.
I can CORRECT my wrong answers and learn the material.
That's the problem with testing.
People brain's are very similar to AI technology.
AI is designed to fail over and over again. And make corrections based off of mistakes.
For Example: The Auto Driving Vechiles that Google made. Did make some mistakes and causes crashes.
This is how they improved the AI. By making those mistakes and correcting them.
I am a software engineer.
First versions of an app is always BAD and has bugs.
Over time the app gets better as we correct the mistakes.
You cannot use a test to figure out people. Because people are not STATIC entities. We are DYNAMIC entities that change and grow via experiences.
A finite IQ number is nothing more than a HIGHER ED Academic's way of saying they can figure people out.
I am 42 years old.
I was a lazy C student in high school.
My intelligence has increased 100 fold since college.
WHY???
Because I care now. I didn't care before.
What I would like to see with the IQ test.
I would like to make it like real life. Give someone the test. Tutor them on what they miss. See can they improve.
low IQ man tells you to believe that low IQ men aren't responsible for low IQ society. Low IQ if you believe.
Compared to most sub-Saharan African nations, Nigeria is full of geniuses.
The smartest ones migrate to western countries.
What does IQ have to do with it lol.
You must be low IQ dude. Can you not see how having this many tribes is the main problem?
This IQ is NOT proving black people are stupid.This is AVERAGE IQ. What means IQ of population being STATISTICALLY lower ? Lower intellectual potential of the society.What means lower potential for society development. Means they are poorer and they would stay poorer... Also lower AVERAGE IQ means they would be more easy victim of manipulation,for being robbed and exploited. That there would be less scientists and entrepreneurs to push they economy,culture and society forward...
Even with proper education their population would achieve worse results if they would be isolated. And education in such African countries is not so good. If it is even existing there.
It’s not IQ. But you can keep telling yourself that.
I repeat man: AVERAGE one. Where tribalism is still existing ? And now verify AVERAGE IQ in those populations...
Societies with bigger potentials - asian and white especially advanced from tribalism.Through violent conquer of course,but achieved that. Less geniuses,less chances to improve. That is why central Africa stayed with tribalism and shit huts.
I am NOT saying black people are idiots.Absolutely not. 20 points difference in IQ is big but not so big between people. It is maybe near the difference between Joe from IT and Jack using forklift in warehouse.(For example,because it isn't such thing that more intelligent people always have better jobs). But if you have to compare society where there are usually people like Joe to society where there are usually people like Jack... You got it ? That's problem.
PS: Of course higher IQ don't make any man better man. Not make people genius.IQ is only intelectual POTENTIAL.
To those not understanding: there are people like Terrence Tao and people like Marilyn vos Savant (Marilyn Mach).Similar IQs,different outcomes.
I could explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. Lower IQ people are simply more prone to violence and dysfunctional behavior. And my own IQ is a triple digit number, Skippy.
So once again.
You don’t think having 500 different tribes with different languages don’t matter???
You don’t think EGO plays a role in our various groups of people I interact with each other?
What is your IQ?
Asians are known to be smart . South Korea and North Korea do not like each other .
Having 500 tribes with different languages likely matters a great deal, but it's probably not be the biggest issue standing in the way of Africa's success.
Africa has many countries full of people with an average IQ of around 60 to 80. In more successful regions, the average IQ is around 100-107. The gap is so wide that Western countries consider people with IQs of 60 to 80 to be mentally disabled and in need of special care and supervision. They are considered to have the mental ability of 8 to 10-year-olds. They have problems with comprehension, memory, language, abstract concepts, social cues, planning, logic, and more.
Individuals are unique and of course there are high and low-IQ individuals in every nation. But the idea that significantly lower average IQ by nation plays no role in Africa's issues is harmful. You can't solve problems when you can't even acknowledge what's contributing to them.
In high school it was tested at 124.