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Re: Brain Drain Across the United States

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Post by kgarten » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:17 PM UTC

JamesBarney wrote: post #202

kgarten wrote: post #180

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IQ is not intelligence. For the longitudinal iq studies, check how they measured IQ (spoiler: it changes ;) ).

Are you arguing that iq isn't correlated with success?

Studies also show that height and IQ are correlated. The question is what does it mean ;)

Re: Brain Drain Across the United States

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Post by skookumchuck » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:40 PM UTC

TYPE_FASTER wrote: post #209

skookumchuck wrote: post #175

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Ambition is what makes things happen. Do you think Apple and the iPhone would have happened without the hyper-ambition of Jobs? It happened in the US, too, not in Sweden.

Skype (Zennstrom) Kazaa Ericsson Minecraft

Zennstrom lives in London. Kazaa is a dutch company. Ericsson was founded in 1876. Minecraft's creator Markus Persson lives in the US.

I don't think these examples make your point.

Re: Brain Drain Across the United States

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Post by kgarten » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 4:09 AM UTC

malms wrote: post #177

kgarten wrote: post #127

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How about educating everybody more ... instead making the breeding argument.

Educating people does not make them smart.. thats not the point here.

So what’s the point? And what makes people smart?