By that logic we've got an entire nation of geniuses in the Inuits. The only thing keeping them from taking over the world is a few pesky polar bears.
But to be serious, the availability of clean water should play in here. Besides drinking, there's hand washing. Lets take a historical example. During the various plagues in Europe, a common charge against Jews was that they caused the plagues. The reasoning? They did not get them as often as others. This alone was worth a number of massacres. If only the people stopped and thought they could have had the same immunity. All they had to do was wash their hands. For Jews, hand washing accompanies a number of activities. Waking up in the morning, going to the bathroom, eating meals (especially bread), praying. So a country that has a lack of clean water would limit the washing of their hands which in turn would increase the chances of 'parasitic stress'. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/family-money/how-to-buy-a-higher-iq-1304720009965/ > > <Quote> > A controversial 2002 book titled "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" > gathered existing data on IQs to map them by country. North American > and Europe looked good. Sub-Saharan Africa did not. Asia shined. > Critics cried racism; there's a long history of intelligence research > that blurs the divide between bigotry and investigation. > > ... > > Disease rates trump all of these variables, explaining 67% of > worldwide variation in intelligence, found Christopher Eppig of the > University of New Mexico in a study published last year by the Royal > Society in its biology journal. > > ... Eppig focused his "parasitic stress hypothesis" on the U.S., where > average IQs range from 104 in New England to 94 in the Deep South. The > result was much the same. A hodgepodge of diseases beat out wealth, > differences in education and other variables to predict intelligence. > </Quote> > > WARNING: Controversy ahead > > READY FOR THE BOMBSHELL? > > BAM: > > <Quote> > "Anything humans do that affects parasite stress will indirectly > affect IQ," says Eppig. Even better than using parasite stress alone > to predict intelligence, he says, is to add to it factors like wealth, > education and climate. > > "This last variable, climate, is both powerful and inevitable. Warm, > swampy climates favor the survival of infectious organisms." > </Quote> > > In other words, Global Warming makes people stupid. > > QED. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
