A commenter wanted to know about racial differences in reaction time. I adapted the following table from Rushton’s book, which originated from data by Richard Lynn:
| population (9-Year-old children) | sample size | progressive matrices iq score | simple reaction time in milliseconds | complex reaction time in milliseconds | odd-man out reaction time in milliseconds |
| east asians in hong kong | 118 | 113 | 361 | 423 | 787 |
| east asians in japan | 444 | 110 | 348 | 433 | 818 |
| whites in britain | 239 | 100 | 371 | 480 | 898 |
| whites in ireland | 317 | 89 | 388 | 485 | 902 |
| blacks in south africa | 350 | 67 | 398 | 489 | 924 |
| standard deviation | 64 | 67 | 187 |
I’m assuming the SD was calculated with reference to the British white population, but I could be wrong since I haven’t read Lynn’s original article yet.
The only thing I find suspicious is the incredibly high IQ scores of the East Asians. My guess is that they took an old IQ test, and the results were published before scientists knew to correct for the Flynn effect. I also don’t know how reliable the reaction time test was because reaction time is such a sensitive measure that if the procedure differed even slightly from one sample to another, the effect could be large.
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It doesn’t seem suspiciously high
I recall that e Asians perform better on ravens and worse on Wais because ravens is more spacial
Except asians always crush tests relative to there actual ability to solve problems. Whites evolved to succeed at capitalism (creating stuff), and asians at bureaucracy (repeating stuff).
“Whites evolved to succeed at capitalism (creating stuff), and asians at bureaucracy (repeating stuff).”
Time to debunk this old tired “creative” fairytale:
1. Imperial China created capitalism, both state capitalism and organised individual one – go check Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty’s capitalism vís-a-vís Europa at a time. And the Han Chinese invented the very tools of capitalism for god’s sake, namely world’s first commercial banking, credit appraisal system, post office, and paper money that go with them!
Are the Whites are just repeating the stuff created by the Chinese and managing to loss it?
In modern time, didn’t red PRC just beat the US in the capitalism game even though PRC arrived very late to the party? Check out who is world’s largest trader, importer and exporter now.
2. And Yes, Imperial China invented world’s first state bureaucracy, too.
On this account, aren’t the Whites also just repeating the stuff the Chinese created eons ago?
Fucking lord, i want stop to comment here… I want and i will…
”capitalism” exist since the first human commercial translation was made. Permute. Primitive capital-ism and both, whites and east asians, ”invent” it…too.
Panda,
east is perfect???
Explain us why ”China stop to inovate like in the ”golden age” and why east asians, specially Chinaland no have a little drop of CREATIVITY to develop itself without western dumb industrial revolution ( called environment depredation and human work exploitation and semi-slavery regime)???? ( creatively speaking, period).
And why Shanghai seems a New eastern New York and european castles is being copied and builded in chinese soil.
China is commiting the same mistakes than URSS.
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