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Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends by RodericDay on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:52PM (#11315904)
Satoshi Kanazawa is not an intellectual I respect very much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa

> views such as that African countries suffer chronic poverty and illness because their people have lower IQs and that black women are objectively less attractive than other races

> a group of 68 evolutionary psychologists issued an open letter titled "Kanazawa's bad science does not represent evolutionary psychology",[6] and an article was published by 35 on the same theme.[7]

Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends by ryw90 on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:39PM (#11316190)
I find it hard to take his work seriously. Here are detailed criticisms of some of his other papers: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kana...
Re:Why smart people are better off with fewer friends by miracle_code on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:26PM (#11316115)
Missing infrastructure for education due to hundreds of years of colonial exploitation and wars fought would be the obvious answer here.

But hey, Hakuna matata! Disney told me so. /s