And now for something completely different ..

[Peter Korsten]

Um, James...

2012/8/2 James Coplin <james at ticalun.net>

> The other thing to consider is the massive Eurocentric assumption of the
> author.  Even if there was a massive conspiracy of Western hegemons
> controlling academic research (one that I as a Western academic would of
> course fall under and therefore my observations are of course suspect and
> in keeping with the power structure's aims), there are lots of other
> people not in the Western world who are also smart academics.


That goes without saying, of course. Presuming that IQ (for what that
measure is worth) is distributed equally over the globe, but that's a topic
I won't even tough with a ten foot pole.


>  In fact,
> there are far more of them in the non-Western world than in the Western
> world.  If 1% of the population on average is of genius level IQ, the
> Chinese have more geniuses than we have people in the US.  India is right
> behind them.
>

And here you get your maths mixed up. If 1% of the population would be
genius (it's more likely to be 0.1% to 0.01%), then the Chinese would have
about 12 million geniuses. There are about 300 million people living in the
USA. 25% of the population would have to be a genius before you even reach
the break-even point.

However, both the Chinese and the Indians should have more geniuses than
North America and Europe combined.

- Peter
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