Imperial exams are symbolic thinking, and meaningless tests similar to SATs and IQ tests. Normans/Scots/Slavs had better spatial ability.
I suspect it wasn't so much spatial ability that allowed whites to get ahead in science but curiosity, individualism, trying new things
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IMO China stagnated because of the stable single government. Europe had centuries of war and brutal competition, thus tech for war.
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re: spatial ability, if you look at inventors of *mechanical* invention there are a lot of Slavs/Germans/Scots/British
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But if you look at developments in (symbolic) math, there are a lot more asians.
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