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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by cubefox on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @07:48AM (#41913343)
People from a higher caste tend to have higher IQ, see e.g. https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Lynn-Cheng-2...

If you mix populations with different mean IQ together, you get an average. And then you get fewer people with exceptionally high IQ like Ramanujan, because IQ is approximately normally distributed. Even a small difference in means makes a large difference at the tails.

Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by gen_greyface on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @09:05AM (#41913835)
I fail to see why this is being pointed out?

> People from a higher caste tend to have higher IQ,

>> People from a higher caste tend to have better access to resources,

also a >Mankind Quarterly, a known fringe Far-right Racist publication.

for fellow readers see [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_Quarterly

Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by cubefox on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @10:25AM (#41914636)
> People from a higher caste tend to have better access to resources

Access to resources does not screen off the correlation between IQ and various measures of performance.

> also a >Mankind Quarterly, a known fringe Far-right Racist publication.

Far-left journalists and Wikipedia authors call it that because, according to them, diagnosing any difference in IQ between populations is automatically "far-right racist". But that's circular reasoning. It's like saying: "You can't trust those sources saying there are population differences in IQ because those sources are racist and they are racist because they are saying there are population differences in IQ."

Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by gen_greyface on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @12:00PM (#41915643)
I will try not to engage further, but if you had any reading comprehension you'd look through the cited "far-left" sources on the wikipedia page.

i'll also assume that you wouldn't perform very well in the intelligence metric you're so fond of.

Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by cubefox on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @12:20PM (#41915874)
> I will try not to engage further, but if you had any reading comprehension you'd look through the cited "far-left" sources on the wikipedia page.

If you had any reading comprehension yourself, you'd notice they don't cite any evidence from non-left leaning sources. It's like reading an article about climate change on conservapedia.

> i'll also assume that you wouldn't perform very well in the intelligence metric you're so fond of

ad hominem