Quote: (07-10-2018 03:58 PM)Cam Newton Wrote:
Quote: (07-10-2018 03:12 PM)semibaron Wrote:
IQ is really the least of the problems. If you raise your half Colombian kids in your home country in a functioning environment, they will become just as smart as you.
Unfortunately the environment plays almost no role in intelligence unless they are malnurished.
So your idea would only work if your Colombian wife was smart. Since Colombia has an average IQ of about 85 (1 standard deviation below the mean), then only about 15% of Colombians will have an IQ over 100. Essentially it just limits your pool of wife candidates. That being said if you go shopping at a university then their won’t be much of an issue.
I vehemently disagree with this and with Charles Murray-the author of The Bell Curve.
First of all, unless every single person in Colombia was given a standard IQ test, these numbers are irrelevant.
Bachelor of Arts Degree/Ph.D holders like Charles Murray throw around terms like bell curves, standard deviations, etc. to make their non-scientific pseudo-intellectual dissertations sound more "scientific" and sell more books.
A normal distribution (commonly called "a bell curve") is only accurate for a specific type of data with specific results such as the roll of dice, a coin toss, the occurrence of blue eyes in a given population, etc.
Psychologists and other pseudo-scientific academic disciplines can find "bell curves" where none actually exist.