Rock wrote:The average Jewish American scores higher than an average Israeli and the average Chinese American scores higher than an average PRC Chinese. So stay put and search in yr. own backyard. And embrace yr. Jewish side. Jews are a lot smarter than Chinese on average. So find a JAP, marry and bear children w/her and see how happy u r, lol.
That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid though. It's what my dad did. It made me smart, but she was a lousy wife and mother. I don't want to marry some American, liberal feminist just because she's smart. Besides, I think my mother's only smart by female standards. Yes, that was a sexist statement. She can't hold up intellectually against the best men (and I do think there is a minority women who can). Anyway, I'm on happier abroad because educated women here suck. Would I be willing to sacrifice intelligence on finding a woman? Maybe. But my ideal is a women who's smart and not a Feminazi.
Rock wrote:ILoveBlackAmericanWomen wrote:
No one is born brilliant or stupid. Everyone is born unknowing of things until we are taught things. I'm saying any person who has trouble understanding math etc is capable of understanding what used to be difficult for them and raising their IQ. IQ's levels are not permanent. Anyone is capable of comprehending what they did not know at first and raising their IQ.
On what planet does it work that way? IQ is a measure of your capacity to learn. Studying math won't change your IQ materially. And you can be sure that a 7, 11, or 18 year old with a measured IQ of 150 will learn any maths that he is taught a lot faster and more effectively than a same aged one with an IQ score of just 90. Same goes for about anything else he is exposed to or taught.
Try teaching calculus to fresh HS grad with an IQ of 90 and see how much fun that is. Then try it with one who has a 150 IQ and watch him absorb all the concepts in days to weeks and end up mastering areas of it you can't comprehend yourself.
Ugh, yeah, I know what that's like as a student. There were always two kinds of good teachers (I went to public schools). The first were the legitimately smart ones like my Spanish teacher who could speak ten languages and those were the types that could actually teach you things. They usually got fired after a year. The other type of good teachers were the ones who didn't have a pretense of knowledge. They realized they weren't that much smarter than their students and couldn't actually teach us much (might not be the case in real low income districts, but I live in the suburbs). Those teachers just made life easier for us and gave us busy work and even had fun with us. The worst teachers were the ones who had the pretense of knowledge. Unlike the first group of teachers that actually were intelligent, they didn't know all that much, but still went out of their way to make students' lives harder by trying to teach them things. Unfortunately most teachers fell into this third category.
This is why I advocate home schooling. You're usually at least taught by someone on your level that way.