Emil O W Kirkegaard

Or they look at China and see how smart non-Westerners not necessarily can achieve democracy or fight corruption. @KirkegaardEmil

China is a weird outlier, not something to generalize from. The other high IQ Asians do alright. 30 mean IQ is a huge effect. A better q is

.@KirkegaardEmil China isn't an outlier. Look at Russia, the rest of NE Europe, N Korea. Low WEIRDness hurts. @Paradigmian @MarkF60

China is a big outlier, look at S ~ IQ scatterplot.

a big outlier, indeed, at 1.4B people. (~_^) e asians/slavs all(?) lower S than WEIRDS. @JayMan471 @Paradigmian @MarkF60

Yes, but effect way too large if estimated from China alone. WEIRD are higher than expected on IQ, but not that much.

but consistently higher. wrt china, just sayin' size matters irl. (~_^) @JayMan471 @Paradigmian @MarkF60