The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Seen

Your point was not related to what I posted. If a point you believe in -- whatever it may be -- is arrived at stupidly, it actually works against it. Do you see my point?

Not sure that's what he meant.

Africa is the seat of where human intelligence actually first started to show as human intelligence - beads - 135,000 year old beads, show that abstract thought was not uncommon in africa, and that people by that date were already into bling. Stone structures of that same date and possibly before (one is thought to be around 200,000 years old - it's rudimentary, but it's there), show a belief system already in place, and social order already being established.

However - the climate IS more palatable down there and, as we know, necessity is the mother of invention, so once they were organized in to societies (tribes mostly, as is instinctual for our species), they didn't strive to "conquer" the environment - they were happy to live within it and as part of it, unlike their northern counterparts that had to devise means up the ying to survive in their less hospitable "digs". So as far as who developed technologically the furthest, well - no brainer - the northern cultures who were, more due to evolution of white skin because of sunshine (Vit D) needs.

As far as ability - they don't lack it, they just never USED it. Right now there are several sustainable inventions coming from the tribal regions of Africa -- and are being created by....teenagers. Invasive cultures have pushed the need - and they are responding admirably.

There are also tribes there that have a much keener introspection on their own selves because they are encouraged to remember and understand their dreams, which are extremely revealing of self. also which is a practice that has shown to be much stronger in cultures that do not have much violence or mental abnormalities among the citizens.

So whose the smartest? Creative people who live peaceably on the land and have values that don't include needing masses of money but live creatively and vitally -- or those who are driven to continually create artificial and vapid entertainments in a basically neurotic, psychotic, and basically spiritually void culture, and have the severe, and often sociopathic, need to acquire money as well as just livable comfort?

Those tests were fashioned and analyzed for purposes of declaring superiority and for making some extra "scratch" for the "experts".

I guess the only people they wanted to convince would be those who would just accept it at face value. And, like you said, those they wanted to please would be certain stuffed-wallet types who bankrolled the "study" (literally sponsored by a de facto White Supremacist organization called the "Pioneer Fund").

I'll willingly explore anything to see if it stands up to facts, logic, and qualified peer review. That "research" didn't. Why would I willingly explore ideas that are taboo? I don't constrict my mind to please others. I would rather know the facts, even if they go against whatever prevailing accepted norms are in vogue. When I see b*llsh*t, I'll call it out. It doesn't take a genius to recognize that that study is a steaming pile of cow dung not meant to convince intelligent or intellectually honest people.