NorthernRyland

Hogwash. Smiles abound for me. Are you smiling back at people or walking around with a scowl? I get befuddled looks sometimes by people (usually older people) but everyone smiles back if you smile or acknowledge them. To be fair though very rarely I could get a look by a person like they don't want you there. Honestly I don't blame them, some people probably don't like random foreigners in their area that they don't know.

They target certain banks. I have a credit union bank in the US and they said it was associated with micro transactions and after sending money takes 3-5 days. Very annoying but there's nothing I can do as far as I can see.

IQ often boils down to abstract thinking ability and general cognitive speed. Depending on what you're doing in life those can be totally useless and maybe even hurt you. Having a 130 IQ is not going to help you much in being a farmer and if you lack other traits you'll be less productive than the 80 IQ farmer. The high IQ people are most useful is making the equipment which helps the lower end be more productive.

It's very old, from the mid 70s I think. I just found the image but can't find the source. I think it was a Wisconsin university and at least in Wisconsin itself. The point is the test can correlate to occupations which you would expect a higher level of intelligence for. If the results came back totally random then IQ tests would indeed be worthless.

Why? Indians can give tours in India.

I don't need to define white and who the European people are. I'm done playing this game "if you can't define white to my liking then white people don't exist and you can be replaced". It's so tiresome. If the Thai people are replaced with Indians and Russians then reduced to a minority, Thailand ceases to exist. Do I need to define what a Thai person is for you to understand what this means for the country? Of course not.

People have been trying to explain this for years. This is from 1998. It's a combination of many things and still there is no change today and no solutions. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-score-gap-why-it-persists-and-what-can-be-done/

How many more times do I need to say I think IQ is largely genetic and varies by population groups. This is well documented science. If you want to deny races exist and genetics have any impact on peoples minds then fine, I've said enough. The white population is declining every year now so there's no stopping the Brazilification now. The historic American nation is basically dead at this point. I'm watching that country crash and burn from Thailand and there's nothing I can do about it so I stopped caring.

You must think brains are like computers and if you load the same software on two brains you get the same output. Parents can't even raise their kids to be exactly the same, they have unique personalities and traits. Is this not variance in the human brain? I don't think you're aware but there's been much science done on IQ and intelligence. No one thinks the genetics contribute zero. It's the same as any trait like hair color or height. Here's a random example: https://www.psypost.org/groundbreaking-study-reveals-the-impact-of-genetics-on-iq-scores-over-time/

The reasons Americans keep doing this is because there's never any consequences. Imagine if Iran hit the US like they did to Israel. Maybe that would teach the average American Joe a lesson about being a keyboard warrior and dropping bombs.

No you missed the point. It's mocking the idea that races don't exist and shows the double standard we apply to humans and not animals. Sorry I'm not going to go through your list and confess to though crimes. I'll just say this, I don't care what anyones IQ, I'm just saying not everyone is the same and not all populations are the same. That's just how the world appears to be so prepare accordingly.

Never been past dark but it's a very common place go to walk and run.

Isn't that what we see? Why are they dropping the test requirements for certain races and not others? as others pointed out the Asian students don't have this problem. Humans are still animals. If monkeys and dogs have different intelligences then the same can be true for human populations.

That high? CM used to feel way less gay. It's probably more just metro-sexualism and people from Bangkok moving there. If you put a man in enough cute little cafes and glitzy malls with expensive designer tea drinks they start to become a little gay. CM is probably 10X gayer than the nearest regional towns like Lamphun or Chiang Dao.

That may be known location and time for gay cruisers. Chiang Mai is feeling really gay these days. I'm constantly asking my wife if she thinks people are gay or not, men and women. Maybe it's all those fancy cafes with the expensive croissants turning the kids gay? 😂 I used to live next to a park in the US where they would do this too. It was annoying and seeing used condoms on the grass everyday and every so often I'd having something vulgar said to me. Goes with the territory I guess.

It's only been the post-WWII era when it became a sin to believe in selective breeding in humans. In that time the USA has admitted tens of millions of immigrants from countries that have average IQs lower than 90. Doesn't need to be naughty racist IQ test, make any test you want and it will show the same results. Scroll up and look at my link, Oregon is dropping reading and match tests for university because they were limiting factors for "people of color" (they mean hispanic and black).

It's all enmeshed together. Your parents aren't going to have good connections if they're 80 IQ janitors.

This is already happening. They want diversity in schools but test standards make this impossible so instead of giving up on diversity they're going to toss out of the tests entirely. https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-says-students-dont-need-to-prove-mastery-of-reading-writing-or-math-to-graduate-citing-harm-to-students-of-color.html

But the students can't pass, that's the problem. They need to passed along or the schools will overflow. In my view there's literally no solution except lower standards for certain races. US simply has too much diversity to make grading standards achievable anymore. These are hard facts of biology and the US is learning this in real time.

Then how do they increase the "quality" of education? All they ever say is to spend more money per child so why doesn't that work in Baltimore? Sure "change the culture" but that culture is coming from the people themselves so unless you're planning to separate families and colonize them they will revert back to the norm.

I know some people like this. They NEED to work and can still perform their functions but are retired at 60. These are low level workers just barely getting by on less than 10,000/month. If their kids don't provide for them they will suffer greatly.

I agree with everything you said, there's no simple solution here since the world economy has gone global and there's always a push and pull between consumers and labor. The temporary workers aren't a solution to the problem, I'm just saying we can profit off their labor and not become entangled with the people themselves and their cultures and habits. That's exactly what Thailand does and while of course I would love full access in undeniable that's not in the interest of the Thai people and so I support their policy.

They've phased these tests out because they are inherently discriminatory. Now we get DEI which is reverse discrimination in favor of low IQ people, i.e. if your race tests too high against other races they raise the bar for you to pass. Here's a real rubber meets the road situation where money is involved. NBA had a test they would conduct in order to know if a player was brain injured and would receive compensation. Because black Americans have an average IQ of 85 they were passing the test more often than white players and thus the NBA would offset their score to normalize them against whites. Of course they got sued and had to end this but now the NBA is paying out settlements to black people in which a white person with the same injury would not get. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047793751/nfl-concussion-settlement-race-norming-cte#:~:text=NFL agrees to end race,B settlement on concussions : NPR&text=Movies-,NFL agrees to end race-based brain testing in $1,players to win dementia awards.

IQ is largely genetic. It doesn't matter how much money they throw at the problem. They could spend 1 million each student and nothing would change. "At 13 Baltimore City high schools, zero students tested proficient on 2023 state math exam" https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/at-13-baltimore-city-high-schools-zero-students-tested-proficient-on-2023-state-math-exam

Do you understand that people from the same FAMILY and who went to the same schools have different IQ? It's at least 50% genetic and varies by population groups too for this reason.