i think idw made a good observation on page one. as a side note, i wonder what the mathematical calculation would be for factoring idw's attempts to bring race into this as a general predictor of social incompetence due to a complex on his part, any takers?
I think that the whole thing about blacks having lower IQ's is probably true. People often mention that blacks are more athletic then whites, I think that that's probably true too. Many frail blacks with weaker physiologies were wiped out during the slave trade, mostly strong ones survived and reproduced, their weak children were killed, and so on and so forth. I think thats why blacks seem to be on the athletic side today.
Same with intelligence. ******* with the African continent caused a sad history of poverty that must have fostered a culture of malnutrition,of nutritional deficiencies that might have affected the gene pool negatively. Today it is clear that African Americans in poor neighborhoods have horrible eating habits, but my point is that slavery, colonialism, segregation etc, all combined to create the culture of poverty for blacks where blacks were malnourished. So if blacks tend to be on the low IQ side, I think that this could bge the reason, I could be proved wrong though.
But in the end - So what? these IQ tests don't help much, they're mostly used by racists as a stick to beat blacks with. They don't help you predict the type of black person that might walk in the door. IQ itself is a bad judge of people.
I'd argue that people will perform better when they know their IQ is being tested. Most people don't live their lives according to gaining more IQ points, it's an elitist concept as applied by those who do it.
While thousands of Poles are leaving Poland, many foreigners are coming in I guess, the main reason why foreigners are coming to Poland is employment opportunities. Any other?
It's a kinda easy question. Large Companies Moving to Poland and bring down their own people and giving them high rank occupations in the company. And giving the "polish" natives some shity occupation like cleaning or being an secretary or something.
The tide is turning. From a teaching perspective, I can see the benefits of native speakers but I think it's a good thing when more Polish teachers can get positions. That's what they study for after all.
Poles just need the vision to be leaders or those who want high ranking positions. The Poles will not be made subservient too easily, trust me. They are gaining a better sense of their own self worth, not like it was under communism.
well for one thing the mind is plastic as they used to say, it expands its powers with practice, and withers through negligence, so that a person with a 90 IQ can become very intelligent or stupid depending on the life he/she has lived.
Why are foreigners coming to Poland and from which countries? Why not, seems like a funny question. I came because I was offered a job, I am from Ireland. I love to travel.
British and American people are often adventurers or they use a six months-gap to avoid taxes after having taught two years in one country. When winter in Poland comes they get depressed. Not family-connected they work overtime, teach a lot to get the only thing they can get here: A bit money. There is no beautiful Polish woman who moons over belly-telly video-playing male teachers from abroad. Most native speaker in Poland are totally overvalued...by themselves. Nevertheless...Poland is worth travelling...pupils and adults are hard-working, they speak much better than Spanish pupils and they...oh...forget it.