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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by milesrout on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:10AM (#43420239)
Differences in average IQ between countries is well established and not even controversial AFAIK. What they mean is debated. Their existence cannot really be debated at all.
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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by fc417fc802 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:30AM (#43420297)
IIRC it correlates very strongly with socioeconomic factors, at least within the US. That doesn't make it useless but it does raise an awful lot of questions.
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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by milesrout on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:14AM (#43422073)
The direction of causation between IQ and economic success is pretty difficult because they obviously drive each other.
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