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August 6, 2014

IQ figures for the Congo are in the 64 to 73 range; for Guinea 70; for Ghana 60-80; for Nigeria 64-70; and Sierra Leone 64.

Many of the locals either do not understand the transmission method (from forest animals like bats), or chose to disbelieve it,

and are not changing their behaviours regarding funereal procedures, which involve bathing and kissing the corpse, all of which are part of altruistic respect for the dead person. The locals are also prey to false correlation: they see people who are mildly ill going into hospital, and then taken out dead soon afterward by space-suited Western health workers. In terms of Kahneman’s Type 1 fast and sloppy thinking, this is understandable. Ebola hospitals are dangerous places. Westerners in space suits are unusual and disturbing, and in fact even the notion of a hospital may be the wrong strategy in these outbreaks. However, if a populace suspect that health workers spraying disinfectant may be malevolently spreading bottled Ebola, then there is a massive health education challenge to be faced.
Psychological comments: Solving Ebola

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 6, 2014 6:39 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I for one believe firmly in evolution and apparently all of that lot in Africa roll the same way.

No doubt they wish to improve their familial and tribal genes.

So who are we to "help" and talk them out of it?

Posted by: Fred Z [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 5:36 PM

Darwin strikes again.

Posted by: Fat Man [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 6:00 PM

Hell, our cats have higher IQ's than that!

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 7:18 PM

You a raciss.

Posted by: B Lewis [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 7:37 PM

……….and the average IQ of the North American Negro is around 75. Nothing quite like being an african american, eh??

Posted by: Jack [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2014 6:51 AM

Yeah, but when you translate those numbers into Ebonics, dat man he became Mensa. Dat a fak.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2014 7:04 AM

I still maintain that its all culture and training or lack thereof. People of that IQ level are perfectly trainable.
That said, I have thought for years that "they" are trying to aid in the depopulation of Africa.

Posted by: pbird [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2014 7:51 AM

@pbird ~ You can't even train them to hold their gun upright. Maybe they think they can shoot around corners that way.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2014 11:02 AM

Someone at Ace of Spades HQ recently got into trouble with Ace himself for pointing out quite accurately that these people are acting like ignorant savages for not carefully dealing with ebola, AIDS, etc.

Ace was all mad because it sounds racist and you'd never use savage for a white person yadda yadda. Mostlyl I think he just wants to make sure he doesn't easily gets smeared as a racist for having people say uncomfortable things on his blog.

But the truth is, some of them ARE savages, and almost all of them are inexcusably ignorant. In Sarahan Africa, the AIDS workers are having a hard time with tribals who believe dry sex is best to the point that the women are said to put SAND in their uh, well you get the idea. Where did they get this idea? Well having sex too early with girls way too young and who aren't always cooperative.

There's stupid like that in America in white people. I've run into it in trailer parks and with those we call "white trash." They're the retards on COPS in their underwear screaming about how the wife bruised their fist with her lyin' face. Its everywhere. Its just in Africa, they've never had a Judeo-Christian worldview to back the development of their civilization.

That would be the worldview that the left just spent 100 years trying to eradicate from the USA.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2014 3:20 PM

Please refer me to the studies showing the relationship between IQ and wisdom, between IQ and kindness, between IQ and altruistic self-sacrifice.

Stupid, brutal, self-defeating behavior is not the exclusive expression of the ignorant or genetically lower IQ person. Among the higher IQ monsters we have King Leopold, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Tojo, Ho Chi Min, ... each with their higher IQ coterie of cold-blooded murderous torturers.

Not long ago, the Indians forced, via their cultural norms, widows to be burnt alive with their deceased husbands. The British put an end to that 'honorable' ethnic feature. Are Indians among the planet's lowest IQ populaces?

Most children below the age of two, cannot fend for themselves as well as they need to. Let's do away with them ASAP, and breed fetuses genetically modified to speak high-sounding political gibberish and to cannibalize their lower IQ siblings -- no point letting fresh flesh go to waste.

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2014 8:38 PM

@VW -- I commend to your attention John McWhorter's "Heard on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English." He discusses the British [Scotch-Irish?] source of the grammatically rigorous Ebonics British/American dialect.

Others may wish to review the records of Black/Brown (but Red, White, and Blue) American fighting men and medics and police who ignorantly EARNED Congressional Medals of Honor, Silver and Bronze Stars, donated blood, limbs, and lives for their higher and lower IQ comrades, in war, in the 9/11 Twin Towers catastrophe, and on the Main Streets and Side Streets and Back Streets of our country.
Jesse Owens and Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays may not have been higher IQ geniuses, but they showed their natural genius for grace and courage and modesty as decent humanes. If you don't believe me, ask Adolf Hitler about Owens, ask Max Schmeling about Louis, ask Robinson's and Mays' teammates and opponents and converted fans.

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2014 9:21 PM

This not racist. The numbers are presented, the correlations are up to the readers.

Be patient. Darwin rules.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 8, 2014 5:30 AM

Precisely Stug Guts. The problem isn't stupidity, its immorality.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 8, 2014 10:05 AM

Stug and Taylor have a terrible need to fill, the need to see equality where none exists. The truths about biologically based Negro dysfunction, and by no means only IQ, in every part of the world in which they exist will not change by ignoring or lying about them. To not understand this is a great cruelty, not a great kindness. Amidst all the cacophony written about race there exists a body of beautifully written and hard won truths about it all. Neither ignorance nor kindness will set anybody free.

The fact that Caucasians are suitable for liberty only very sporadically and even then by the thinnest of margins only illuminates the fact that no Negro tribe is capable of it. To the contrary, advanced civilization is an evolved state which is so anti-instinctual that both the lowest intelligence and the very highest rebel at it.

Posted by: james wilson [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 8, 2014 12:15 PM

James, I was not clear enough. I meant to emphasize not equality, but equivalence in the range of qualities that human beings share.
Some have the qualities to create beneficial things for all -- medical and biologic products of all kinds, seeds/foods that can be grown more widely to promote thriving. Others, simple-hearted and simple-minded, may have as their prime qualities devotion to serving others, with little chance that they will design the next piece of life-saving instrumentation.
Yet, "... Din! Din! Din! You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din! Tho I've belted you an' flayed you, by the livin' Gawd that made you, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

In the commercial world marketing people speak of promoting non-price values [durability, utility, appearance, lightness, ..]. In the world of human relationships what are the non-intellectual values that you find always attractive? Beauty, kindness, loyalty, courage?
Somewhat off the point, I remember a rabbi being asked whether God was kind and just in allowing birth of a child with Down syndrome. He replied that he'd been taught that these children were the current havens of old souls who'd evolved to near perfection, and they had chosen to serve in this world one last time by breaking or further softening hearts of parents and others, with the Down syndrome qualities of innocence and gentleness.

So who really knows. Alan Paton, author of 'Cry, the Beloved Country' put it this way, "There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."
Or, in the words of Tukaram Maharaj, householder, mystic, constant complainer to God, "In my life I have attained what I had to attain, and now the only reason I live is to serve."

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 8, 2014 5:46 PM

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