05-12-2008, 11:29 PM
Here's a customer review from Amazon on the book, "IQ and Wealth of Nations" by Richard Lynn.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The authors have done some incredibly random estimates of our national IQ. He got the IQ of Vietnam by taking the average of China and Thailand. This is simply absurd because the Vietnamese people originated from Southern China, and they are completely unrelated to the Thai people, racially and culturally. The authors could have assumed that the Vietnamese and the Chinese had the same average IQ (because they are genetically and culturally similar), that would have been better albeit still very random.
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That is really incredulous. This is what Lynn passes off as scholarly work. Determining IQ is important, but can't let the task fall to such people who have misguided ambitions. People in academia, like Lynn, who do such half-baked studies are guided financially by the Pioneer Fund, who have their own agenda to push.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The authors have done some incredibly random estimates of our national IQ. He got the IQ of Vietnam by taking the average of China and Thailand. This is simply absurd because the Vietnamese people originated from Southern China, and they are completely unrelated to the Thai people, racially and culturally. The authors could have assumed that the Vietnamese and the Chinese had the same average IQ (because they are genetically and culturally similar), that would have been better albeit still very random.
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That is really incredulous. This is what Lynn passes off as scholarly work. Determining IQ is important, but can't let the task fall to such people who have misguided ambitions. People in academia, like Lynn, who do such half-baked studies are guided financially by the Pioneer Fund, who have their own agenda to push.