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Re:How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike sho... by tptacek on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @07:29PM (#43639104)
None of this is meaningful. IQ as national population-level statistic is folkloric. China may well have a human capital advantage over the US; that's what you'd expect from a country with over 3x as many people. But it has nothing to do with biological differences between Americans and Chinese people.
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Re:How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike sho... by prmoustache on Thursday April 10, 2025 @02:43AM (#43641305)
Nobody mentionned biology. It is policy and culture.

In the USA it is less fashionable and more frowned upon every year to show intelligent traits. And it has been the case for the last 20 years.

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Re:How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike sho... by tptacek on Thursday April 10, 2025 @02:48AM (#43641335)
Maybe; I have no opinion about that. But China's human capital advantage in the coming century seems pretty clear just from the numbers.
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