Saturday, August 13, 2011

Generally, are Asians more intelligent than Caucasians?

If you were the best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell, (Outliers), you'd already know the answer to this question. What makes Asians appear more intelligent is a culture that inculcates hard work and perseverance from childhood. Thus, their students study so hard that even if they are not as intelligent as the person sitting next to them, they still get better grades. That being said, there is obviously some genetic component to IQ, as firstborns tend to have a higher one than successive births. I cannot put much stock in racial divides, since the tests used to back that up were usually culturally biased.

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