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Re:Taleb is wrong about IQ by fastball on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:41PM (#20556511)
Singapore and Hong Kong were cities before AC existed.
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Re:Taleb is wrong about IQ by ceejayoz on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:44PM (#20557235)
Was anyone IQ testing their populations for academic research before AC existed, though?

I'm skeptical of the IQ heat idea - it'd be readily demonstrable if it existed - but the numbers available, particularly outside the US/Europe, are largely current/recent, not from pre-1950s.

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Re:Taleb is wrong about IQ by ceejayoz on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:11PM (#20558237)
1. I don't believe the heat idea. Nor the superior genes one.

2. That doesn't make "these cities existed without air conditioning" a good argument in this thread. Yes, they did. No, that doesn't debunk the heat/IQ linkage idea.

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