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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There are two populations outside Europe that also have low WH ratios: the Polynesians, where wide hips are probably necessary to give birth to large infants and the milk swigging Mongolian nomads:pic.twitter.com/pj68J8uRAb
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Mongolians are not very lactose tolerant except by East Asian standards (88% intolerant) but they may derive a higher percentage of their total calories from dairy products than any other people on earth and have been doing so for a very long time: http://www.khovsgoldairyproject.org/news/mongolia/dairy-products/ …
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One way to prove that this cluster of distinctive mental and physical qualities in NW Europeans are connected is by demonstrating that a similar suite of traits exists in other milk drinking populations around the world and Mongols are a perfect example.
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The World Memory Championship is more popular in China than anywhere else, but in 2017 1.2. Billion Han could not find a man to best Munkhshur Narmandakh of Mongolia.
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Narmandakh is not a one-off exception; Mongolians have by far the best rote memories of any people on earth. Here’s a list of countries that produced the greatest number of recognized Memory Grand Masters:pic.twitter.com/6TInlC80Be
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Replying to @crimkadid
Do you think the distinction you’re looking at could be verbal vs visuospatial, rather than episodic vs semantic?
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I doubt it because the autism link fits too well with the anatomy and because East Asians are so superior in visuospatial abilites and yet have such poor Jeopardy memories given their highe rIQ
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But first of all - world memory championships are all about mnemotechnics and thus about visualization, right? Low performance on Jeopardy specifically may be an immigrant thing. — And then how sure are you NW euros have higher autistism incidence than jews and CJK?
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There's a different visualization involved in remembering abstractions like numbers or words compared to the 3D visualization of objects that you need in tasks like mental rotation where Asians excel.
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