I have a hard time believing Tibet is that low, given that they have created magnificent buildings and a good body of literature. Sure, maybe the lowest in China, but not that low. Probably more around Myanmar's, or Northeast India. If you want to remove minorities from the calculation of Western IQ, I'd suggest you only include Han for China, even though I'm not sure if doing so is easy. But let's be real: there are probably not a lot of Tibetans in the halls of Chinese power and influence, or from the southern minorities.
I agree. Unless there's a practical reason why it cannot be calculated, it seems very biased to compute an IQ for US whites (which excludes US minorities), while not computing an IQ for Chinese Han (which would exclude Chinese minority ethnic groups).
The IQ data inferred from the 2022 PISA results also shows US Asians as being higher than US whites. So I think the subtitle is misleading. East Asians are still smarter than Europeans on average.
I don't know if this explanation does make the writer's subtitle true, but couldn't one argue that US Asians are a more "selected" group than US Whites? Just thinking out loud.
Maybe, but the article said that the data for all countries was stripped of their first and second generation immigrants.
The earlier Japanese, Chinese, and other Asian immigrants to the US in the 1900s were rather poor. Many of the immigrants in the first wave of Chinese immigration to the US were refugees from the Hakka-Punti Clan Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punti%E2%80%93Hakka_Clan_Wars). Same with the Korean and Vietnamese refugees who fled the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Many of the Asian immigrants who came to the US prior to two generations ago thus had refugee backgrounds.
Less intelligent Asian races like Filipinos, Hmong, Cambodians, etc also get indistinguishably grouped in with the (East) Asian statistics in the US. Despite all these factors, US Asians *still* have higher IQs than US whites.
Vietnam having a slightly higher native IQ than China does not seem very believable.
I have a hard time believing Tibet is that low, given that they have created magnificent buildings and a good body of literature. Sure, maybe the lowest in China, but not that low. Probably more around Myanmar's, or Northeast India. If you want to remove minorities from the calculation of Western IQ, I'd suggest you only include Han for China, even though I'm not sure if doing so is easy. But let's be real: there are probably not a lot of Tibetans in the halls of Chinese power and influence, or from the southern minorities.
I agree. Unless there's a practical reason why it cannot be calculated, it seems very biased to compute an IQ for US whites (which excludes US minorities), while not computing an IQ for Chinese Han (which would exclude Chinese minority ethnic groups).
The IQ data inferred from the 2022 PISA results also shows US Asians as being higher than US whites. So I think the subtitle is misleading. East Asians are still smarter than Europeans on average.
I don't know if this explanation does make the writer's subtitle true, but couldn't one argue that US Asians are a more "selected" group than US Whites? Just thinking out loud.
Maybe, but the article said that the data for all countries was stripped of their first and second generation immigrants.
The earlier Japanese, Chinese, and other Asian immigrants to the US in the 1900s were rather poor. Many of the immigrants in the first wave of Chinese immigration to the US were refugees from the Hakka-Punti Clan Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punti%E2%80%93Hakka_Clan_Wars). Same with the Korean and Vietnamese refugees who fled the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Many of the Asian immigrants who came to the US prior to two generations ago thus had refugee backgrounds.
Less intelligent Asian races like Filipinos, Hmong, Cambodians, etc also get indistinguishably grouped in with the (East) Asian statistics in the US. Despite all these factors, US Asians *still* have higher IQs than US whites.