Part of the difference in memory is attributable to the fact that NW European are better at autistically clumping facts into categories in the sense of bug collectors, movie buffs, and Internet HBD guys.
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Richard Feynman likes to tell a story about his father and how he taught him that it didn’t matter what you called a thing like a bird, what mattered was the real thing, the bird:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc …
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Feynman himself, one of the smartest guys ever, had real trouble with any kind of technical vocabulary of the kind displayed by Asperger’s “little professors”. He famously asked a librarian if she could show him “a map of the cat” for his biology class.
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The people that stand out as the direct opposites of Jews in cognitive style and interests are the Scandinavians. Whereas Jews are sharp eyed and attuned to their surroundings, Scandinavians are detached and otherworldly.
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They way comedians like the Coen brothers make fun of Scandos is by exaggerating the way they seem to understand everything said to them on a 1-2 second delay, all the while dumbly nodding their heads to show agreement:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5GsfNcDzA …
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The 100% Norwegian Bill Fagerbakke has made his living as actor putting on a Scandinavian minstrel show, playing up this racial type even in characters that aren’t Scandinavian, like Dauber from Coach or more famously, Patrick Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Cia5P_9UQ …
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The Irish have slightly larger skulls overall, but Norwegians are the world's all time forehead champions. They're no more tolerant than the Irish, but their cooler climate allows the hot frontal lobe to growth with no constraintspic.twitter.com/9GZmR0MAkD
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One last way that NW Euros represent a worldwide extreme is the low hip to waist to hip ratio of their women. In a 19 country WHO survey Austrian women had the lowest and Czech women the highest ratios:pic.twitter.com/KN3twBqEmm
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That Czechs again represent a European extreme is no surprise, as it stands to reason that a brachycephalic skull with a lower surface area can pass through a narrower set of hips.
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Replying to @crimkadid
Having just learned the terms today, it would seem to me that dolichocephaly would have a smaller cross section? An apple may have a smaller surface area than a banana, but I'd rather poop out the banana.
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You're right, I think it's no so much the shape as the sheer size of the forehead, similar to what Polynesian women must go through during birth.
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