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<p>Source, please? You ought to have one to make an assertion like that. And trust me when I say that for every one, I can probably find a counterpointing one.</p>
<p>And I'm Asian, so don't even think of accusing me of racism.</p>
<p>As an Asian, I'm going to go with the food.</p>
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<p>And I'm Asian, so don't even think of accusing me of racism.
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<p>Keep in mind, much of the data in that book is not useful. However, the IQs for Japan in comparison to the US is very much so. Both of these countries have been tested extensively so there are very few inconsistencies in the data.</p>
<p>^Wow Korea is really smart. Go Koreans!!! Actually I'm quite surprised North Korea is so high up there. Could you explain this test more, like how was it administered,etc.</p>
<p>It's not a single test. They basically collected data from many different IQ tests in many different countries that have been given and then found the amount of variance between the tests (very low) and related them.</p>
<p>Um hell yeah intelligence = wealth. Money is everything on our world. sorry if you dont agree, but if you were smarter than somebody you would use that to make money. shows that people who aren't truly book smart, sometimes end up being a hell of alot more intelligent than those who are. thus the high number o Billionaries who didjnt even graduate from HS or didnt go on to college. all going to school means is that you can read a book and recite something, it doesn't make you smart. what makes you smart is actually putting that knowledge to actual use in the real world.</p>
<p>Take a Wharton graduate in business wh0 gets a 3.9 gpa who makes 300K a year, then take a state school business student who makes millions. The 3.9 didnt mean **** to the Wharton grad, as his education didn't do him to good and all it proved was he could read a book. Not actually produce results.</p>
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<p>What about teachers?</p>
<p>culture imo</p>
<p>this post is just going to get out of hand.</p>
<p>k&s-</p>
<p>I totally agree. That's a deep, deep thing to bring up</p>
<p>Ever here the phrase. "Those who cant do, teach and those who cant teach teach gym". Actually most of the teachers I have had have been idiots, tools in the game.</p>
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Um hell yeah intelligence = wealth. Money is everything on our world. sorry if you dont agree, but if you were smarter than somebody you would use that to make money. shows that people who aren't truly book smart, sometimes end up being a hell of alot more intelligent than those who are. thus the high number o Billionaries who didjnt even graduate from HS or didnt go on to college. all going to school means is that you can read a book and recite something, it doesn't make you smart. what makes you smart is actually putting that knowledge to actual use in the real world.
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<p>Simply amazing.</p>
<p>Well I'm white but....</p>
<p>I like asian people for alot of reasons. Each asian culture and country has its own very interesting and impressive set of traditions and customs. Asian people for the most part are very driven at everything they do, not just academics, but athletics, and being great friends.</p>
<p>Not to mention, asian girls are hot.</p>
<p>lol intelligence = wealth. so care to explain inheritance? lottery winners? people that just strike it rich over night?</p>
<p>so circuit, you're saying all state school business students make more than wharton business graduates?
i think you have to look at averages buddy, one kid striking it rich from a state school vs everyone at wharton making 300k.
plus, im pretty sure some wharton graduates do open their own business and make millions... <em>cough donald trump</em></p>
<p>Circuit:
"Um hell yeah intelligence = wealth. Money is everything on our world. sorry if you dont agree, but if you were smarter than somebody you would use that to make money. shows that people who aren't truly book smart, sometimes end up being a hell of alot more intelligent than those who are. thus the high number o Billionaries who didjnt even graduate from HS or didnt go on to college. all going to school means is that you can read a book and recite something, it doesn't make you smart. what makes you smart is actually putting that knowledge to actual use in the real world.</p>
<p>Take a Wharton graduate in business wh0 gets a 3.9 gpa who makes 300K a year, then take a state school business student who makes millions. The 3.9 didnt mean **** to the Wharton grad, as his education didn't do him to good and all it proved was he could read a book. Not actually produce results."</p>
<p>As I started reading this post, the first thought that came to my mind was that circuit was making a sarcastic remark (money is everything obviously sounds like a sarcastic remark at first sight). As I went on to read the rest of the post and discover that he was in fact not making a sarcastic remark, I was quite shocked. This person really does believe that money is everything. </p>
<p>First lets begin with the definition of intelligence that is commonly used. Most of us believe that intelligence can be precisely quantified by "IQ Tests", but in reality these "IQ Tests" only measure a certain kind of thinking ability which is generally beneficial in school and in the work place. Is this the only kind of thinking ability that we should value?
Thus, people make the automatic assumption that someone who draws a salary of 300k/year is more intelligent than someone who makes 40k/year. Do we not need to consider the fact that the person with the lower income may not be as interested in making money as the other man? After all, he may be a university professor/researcher who has devoted his entire life to the progress of BioChemistry (say). On top of that, people are generally inclined to assume that a billionaire is even more intelligent than both of the aforementioned persons.</p>
<p>Next, the poster made a very interesting comment: what makes you smart is actually putting that knowledge to actual use in the real world.
This is a point of view I agree with; what I do not agree with is the poster's interpretation of what is of "actual use" in the "real world". Is a man who makes more and more money for himself of more "actual use" to the "real world" than the BioChemistry researcher who may, for all you know, be attempting to further remedies for life threatening illnesses?</p>
<p>The Wharton education, the poster says, did not produce results. I don't think I shall go further into this point, as I would only be repeating myself. "producing results" essentially depends on how you define results and productive results.</p>
<p>I am extremely sorry to say that your perception of what is good and useful to the world is very skewed.</p>
<p>Hansen read my
posts again.</p>
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<p>Ughhh - most Asian girls are unnattractive, average to above-average (just like any other group).</p>
<p>er i read it once and i understood it the first time thank you very much. there is no need to waste time reading worthless junk twice.</p>