80% of African Languages are Oral Only

submitted by MagicMike from self.whatever

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]MagicMike[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Chinese people evolved to be smart because Mandarin has no alphabet. Every concept has a unique tag. Writing Mandarin requires thought. This is why Chinese people average 105+ IQ while boons are about 85 in the USA and that’s only because a lot of them have a white great grandpappy like LeVar Burton (who near shit his pants when he found out, on some tv show.)

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I have met quite a few chineese people and they did not seem particularly bright. I think a lot of those test scores come from cheating. Same with India. The Japanese on the other hand are very intelligent and honest. With billions of people, if they truly had such a high average IQ, there would be tens of thousands of absolute geniuses. Yet their most advanced stuff is stolen tech.

Why don't they produce their own advanced computer chips? Why are they not advancing every scientific boundary? Why don't they have more advanced AI? It just does not add up.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't think anecdotal evidence provides a sufficient sample size. I know one Chinese person who has trouble speaking English and doesn't really acknowledge whether or not he understands you, he just nods and you have to guess whether or not he even listened, but I know another person who's a 6th dan go player. The top go players have always been the Chinese.

Both Chinese and Indians come here en masse to study at our technical universities, because it's simply too competitive in the east, they can't all get in. Even though the state of universities is problematic and there are geniuses who drop out of university to do their own thing, I would still say that the ability to succeed in university is a sign of intelligence.

Also, a higher average IQ can come from most people just being a little more intelligent than the average person. It doesn't need to be carried up by a portion of the population having an exceptionally high IQ. And indeed, as you state, that'd require a lot of geniuses, which is why the former scenario is more likely.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Also, a higher average IQ can come from most people just being a little more intelligent

That is very much not how it works.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you have more information about this? It's obvious that that's how statistics work but presumably you're talking about genetics. Are you saying a higher average IQ is always carried by a higher rate of geniuses? I can't find any sources that state that.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What is obvious is that the chineese IQ distribution would not wildly vary from every other IQ distribution in the world for no reason at all. I don't need sources for that. You should be providing sources for your absolutely absurd claim that it does.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Chinese have a billion plus people. Most are dirt dumb. Easily ruled by corrupt communist puppets who are bribed by western bankers. But the smartest Chinese go to college in USA, and move there. That's who you see so you assume all Chinese are smart. Only the ones who get out of that hellhole are smart.