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In reality, you just can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit, no matter how hard you try.
This is one of the most disgusting things I've seen on this website. Am I "chicken shit" to you?
I grew up in bumfuck Appalachia, and there's a lot of people there that are so inbred and unfortunate that they can barely chew gum and walk at the same time. You can put people through years and years of education and spend all the money in the world on them, but you're not going to ever get them to understand calculus or read on grade-level.
Acknowledging people's individual abilities and limits is far more humane than pie-in-the-sky optimism.
Some countries have higher IQ populations than others. Eg South Korea was poorer than many African countries in the 60s, now they make smartphones.
This would have been hard to predict given a blank slate talent is everywhere thesis, but not if you know they have one of the highest IQs in the world. Same with Singapore.
Of course a really bad government (North Korea) can screw you up.
Are you saying I'm inherently inferior due to the country my parents were born in?
It's perfectly possible for very smart people to come from very low average IQ populations, it's just less likely than from higher average IQ ones.
Many countries also have very high IQ subpopulations eg India, Nigeria and Iran off the top of my head.