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The Tale of 2 Countries Kenya & Singapore
masukuma
#31 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:37:53 AM
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nakujua wrote:

Hapo sawa timbosho, ndivyo nilikubaliana na torio , sisi wamiliki wa ngozi nyeusi huzaliwa na kiwango kikubwa sana cha ujinga, na ukosefu wa akili. smile

you people never fail to surprise me.
So... is IQ a factor of skin color? presence of melanin or lack there of? is melanin abundance a causal factor or a correlational factor? Lazy brains tend to draw up conclusions like this! is IQ a factor of birth, diet, environment? Does the weight a mother pick up during her pregnancy affect the IQ of the child she is bearing? Does talking to your child while in the womb and after they are born (way before they can give your any kind of feedback) affect the IQ of the child? What about having elder siblings? Are there other factors? are they causal or correlational?
What are the causal not correlational factors that actually make IQ tests differ among groups of people?Don't be a lazy thinker!!
In my well considered opinion it's all down to 2 things... CULTURE and DIET amongst other factors! even such things as height are to a large extent having a dietary correlation.
Has anyone looked up the Flynn effect?

by the way... how come the Japanese or the chineses (that are supposed to have higher IQs) don't go around reminding everyone that they are in the front of the bell curve and yet it's the people in the middle that do? Don't consume hate science and look at your kids any differently! your kids are not damned to be low IQed just because their folks had black skins... priss! synthesising the causality of IQ or any other trait of the human race to just 1 or 2 variables is incredibly lazy... FAGA!! DON'T BE A LAZY THINKER!
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mkeiy
#32 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:38:39 AM
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Joined: 1/27/2012
Posts: 851
Location: Nairobi
nakujua wrote:
timbosho wrote:
nakujua wrote:
murchr wrote:
nakujua wrote:
Torio wrote:
nakujua wrote:
[quote=Torio][quote=nakujua][quote=Torio]
Hapo sawa, so its basically poor leadership that pulled Kenya back as compared to Singapore

Hapana si sawa. Leadership is just one small bit of it.

smile so human capital (as defined on Wikipedia) is number one, the port number two, some other stuff then, Lee yee/ arap moi just a tinny little bit.
hapo ni sawa.


In simple terms he's saying that the "African" IQ is lower that that of the Asian thus the difference.

Hapo sawa, I guess then we africans especially kenyans were not born with the creative capacity nor the ability to perform meaningful labor to produce economic value. Sad


The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

Hapo sawa timbosho, ndivyo nilikubaliana na torio , sisi wamiliki wa ngozi nyeusi huzaliwa na kiwango kikubwa sana cha ujinga, na ukosefu wa akili. smile




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Swenani
#33 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:46:16 AM
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Joined: 8/15/2013
Posts: 13,237
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nakujua wrote:
timbosho wrote:
nakujua wrote:
murchr wrote:
nakujua wrote:
Torio wrote:
nakujua wrote:
[quote=Torio][quote=nakujua][quote=Torio]
Hapo sawa, so its basically poor leadership that pulled Kenya back as compared to Singapore

Hapana si sawa. Leadership is just one small bit of it.

smile so human capital (as defined on Wikipedia) is number one, the port number two, some other stuff then, Lee yee/ arap moi just a tinny little bit.
hapo ni sawa.


In simple terms he's saying that the "African" IQ is lower that that of the Asian thus the difference.

Hapo sawa, I guess then we africans especially kenyans were not born with the creative capacity nor the ability to perform meaningful labor to produce economic value. Sad


The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

Hapo sawa timbosho, ndivyo nilikubaliana na torio , sisi wamiliki wa ngozi nyeusi huzaliwa na kiwango kikubwa sana cha ujinga, na ukosefu wa akili. smile


Can we therefore conclude that the more black you are the lower you IQ is?
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nakujua
#34 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 2:20:15 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 12/17/2009
Posts: 3,583
Location: Kenya
masukuma wrote:
nakujua wrote:

Hapo sawa timbosho, ndivyo nilikubaliana na torio , sisi wamiliki wa ngozi nyeusi huzaliwa na kiwango kikubwa sana cha ujinga, na ukosefu wa akili. smile

you people never fail to surprise me.
So... is IQ a factor of skin color? presence of melanin or lack there of? is melanin abundance a causal factor or a correlational factor? Lazy brains tend to draw up conclusions like this! is IQ a factor of birth, diet, environment? Does the weight a mother pick up during her pregnancy affect the IQ of the child she is bearing? Does talking to your child while in the womb and after they are born (way before they can give your any kind of feedback) affect the IQ of the child? What about having elder siblings? Are there other factors? are they causal or correlational?
What are the causal not correlational factors that actually make IQ tests differ among groups of people?Don't be a lazy thinker!!
In my well considered opinion it's all down to 2 things... CULTURE and DIET amongst other factors! even such things as height are to a large extent having a dietary correlation.
Has anyone looked up the Flynn effect?

by the way... how come the Japanese or the chineses (that are supposed to have higher IQs) don't go around reminding everyone that they are in the front of the bell curve and yet it's the people in the middle that do? Don't consume hate science and look at your kids any differently! your kids are not damned to be low IQed just because their folks had black skins... priss! synthesising the causality of IQ or any other trait of the human race to just 1 or 2 variables is incredibly lazy... FAGA!! DON'T BE A LAZY THINKER!

sasa @ma-sukuma, si @ti-mbosho amesema bell curve ni ukweli wa maisha - how is one supposed to discuss with one who believes that the color of your skin is a determinant of ones intelligence, si unakubaliana tu na yeye - sasa utamwambia nini, na tayari anajua yeye na wewe na mimi tulizaliwa na ujinga. smile
nakujua
#35 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 2:36:20 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 12/17/2009
Posts: 3,583
Location: Kenya
Swenani wrote:
nakujua wrote:
timbosho wrote:
nakujua wrote:
murchr wrote:
nakujua wrote:
Torio wrote:
nakujua wrote:
[quote=Torio][quote=nakujua][quote=Torio]
Hapo sawa, so its basically poor leadership that pulled Kenya back as compared to Singapore

Hapana si sawa. Leadership is just one small bit of it.

smile so human capital (as defined on Wikipedia) is number one, the port number two, some other stuff then, Lee yee/ arap moi just a tinny little bit.
hapo ni sawa.


In simple terms he's saying that the "African" IQ is lower that that of the Asian thus the difference.

Hapo sawa, I guess then we africans especially kenyans were not born with the creative capacity nor the ability to perform meaningful labor to produce economic value. Sad


The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

Hapo sawa timbosho, ndivyo nilikubaliana na torio , sisi wamiliki wa ngozi nyeusi huzaliwa na kiwango kikubwa sana cha ujinga, na ukosefu wa akili. smile


Can we therefore conclude that the more black you are the lower you IQ is?

smile nyakati fulani zilizopita kulikuwa na mzalendo, ambaye hakufurahishwa hata kidogo na matamshi ambayo yalilenga kuzua utatanishi katika mshikamano wetu kama wakenya.

nitaepuka swali lako la balagha, ili nisijipate mashakani.
FRM2011
#36 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 3:10:40 PM
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Joined: 11/5/2010
Posts: 2,459
nakujua wrote:
Swenani wrote:
nakujua wrote:
timbosho wrote:
nakujua wrote:
murchr wrote:
nakujua wrote:
Torio wrote:
nakujua wrote:
[quote=Torio][quote=nakujua][quote=Torio]
Hapo sawa, so its basically poor leadership that pulled Kenya back as compared to Singapore

Hapana si sawa. Leadership is just one small bit of it.

smile so human capital (as defined on Wikipedia) is number one, the port number two, some other stuff then, Lee yee/ arap moi just a tinny little bit.
hapo ni sawa.


In simple terms he's saying that the "African" IQ is lower that that of the Asian thus the difference.

Hapo sawa, I guess then we africans especially kenyans were not born with the creative capacity nor the ability to perform meaningful labor to produce economic value. Sad


The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

Hapo sawa timbosho, ndivyo nilikubaliana na torio , sisi wamiliki wa ngozi nyeusi huzaliwa na kiwango kikubwa sana cha ujinga, na ukosefu wa akili. smile


Can we therefore conclude that the more black you are the lower you IQ is?

smile nyakati fulani zilizopita kulikuwa na mzalendo, ambaye hakufurahishwa hata kidogo na matamshi ambayo yalilenga kuzua utatanishi katika mshikamano wetu kama wakenya.

nitaepuka swali lako la balagha, ili nisijipate mashakani.


Bwana nakujua, kiswahili kiako, ni kisuri sana.Applause Applause
murchr
#37 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:34:45 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 2/26/2012
Posts: 15,980
FRM2011 wrote:
nakujua wrote:
Swenani wrote:
nakujua wrote:
timbosho wrote:
nakujua wrote:
murchr wrote:
nakujua wrote:
Torio wrote:
nakujua wrote:
[quote=Torio][quote=nakujua][quote=Torio]
Hapo sawa, so its basically poor leadership that pulled Kenya back as compared to Singapore

Hapana si sawa. Leadership is just one small bit of it.

smile so human capital (as defined on Wikipedia) is number one, the port number two, some other stuff then, Lee yee/ arap moi just a tinny little bit.
hapo ni sawa.


In simple terms he's saying that the "African" IQ is lower that that of the Asian thus the difference.

Hapo sawa, I guess then we africans especially kenyans were not born with the creative capacity nor the ability to perform meaningful labor to produce economic value. Sad


The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

Hapo sawa timbosho, ndivyo nilikubaliana na torio , sisi wamiliki wa ngozi nyeusi huzaliwa na kiwango kikubwa sana cha ujinga, na ukosefu wa akili. smile


Can we therefore conclude that the more black you are the lower you IQ is?

smile nyakati fulani zilizopita kulikuwa na mzalendo, ambaye hakufurahishwa hata kidogo na matamshi ambayo yalilenga kuzua utatanishi katika mshikamano wetu kama wakenya.

nitaepuka swali lako la balagha, ili nisijipate mashakani.


Bwana nakujua, kiswahili kiako, ni kisuri sana.Applause Applause


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Obi 1 Kanobi
#38 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:42:13 PM
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Joined: 7/23/2008
Posts: 3,017
@Torio,

Welcome aboard, I like the way you are thinking and arguing.

Your argument makes a lot of sense. I have always argued that human capital surpasses all other resources in the world. That it why the average Kenyan as you correctly put it in 1964 had no chance of competing with the Singaporean (who is basically a chinese immigrant) in commerce and investment growth.

The chinese have been engaged in organised nation building and trade since recorded history while the african/kenyan remains organised upto the clan level and probably went to school simply because the local missionary was insistent on getting anyone to learn to read and as they were the youngest (or weakest) child in a family and were not fit to herd cattle their father had no problem getting rid of them by sending them to school.

Given the same tools, the performance of the Kenyan leader would be dragged down by the collective mediocrity of the led while the Singaporean leader's performance will be raised by the high knowledge and expectations of the led.
"The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
nakujua
#39 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 5:09:29 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 12/17/2009
Posts: 3,583
Location: Kenya
Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:
@Torio,

Welcome aboard, I like the way you are thinking and arguing.

Your argument makes a lot of sense. I have always argued that human capital surpasses all other resources in the world. That it why the average Kenyan as you correctly put it in 1964 had no chance of competing with the Singaporean (who is basically a chinese immigrant) in commerce and investment growth.

The chinese have been engaged in organised nation building and trade since recorded history while the african/kenyan remains organised upto the clan level and probably went to school simply because the local missionary was insistent on getting anyone to learn to read and as they were the youngest (or weakest) child in a family and were not fit to herd cattle their father had no problem getting rid of them by sending them to school.

Given the same tools, the performance of the Kenyan leader would be dragged down by the collective mediocrity of the led while the Singaporean leader's performance will be raised by the high knowledge and expectations of the led.

sawa, lets ask mr google to aid us in this human capital discussion.
Quote:

As foreign investment poured in, Singapore began focusing on developing its human resources, in addition to its infrastructure. The country set up many technical schools and paid international corporations to train their unskilled workers in information technology, petrochemicals, and electronics. For those who could not get industrial jobs, the government enrolled them in labor intensive un-tradable services, such as tourism and transportation...


The leadership huko invested in human capital, its not that ati they had experts just waiting for favorable conditions.

while our focus was on getting a few hundred rich kids into national schools, some other guys were already thinking of universal training and transfer of knowledge.
murchr
#40 Posted : Tuesday, April 07, 2015 5:11:40 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 2/26/2012
Posts: 15,980
Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:
@Torio,

Welcome aboard, I like the way you are thinking and arguing.

Your argument makes a lot of sense. I have always argued that human capital surpasses all other resources in the world. That it why the average Kenyan as you correctly put it in 1964 had no chance of competing with the Singaporean (who is basically a chinese immigrant) in commerce and investment growth.

The chinese have been engaged in organised nation building and trade since recorded history while the african/kenyan remains organised upto the clan level and probably went to school simply because the local missionary was insistent on getting anyone to learn to read and as they were the youngest (or weakest) child in a family and were not fit to herd cattle their father had no problem getting rid of them by sending them to school.

Given the same tools, the performance of the Kenyan leader would be dragged down by the collective mediocrity of the led while the Singaporean leader's performance will be raised by the high knowledge and expectations of the led.


Are you saying that the Chinese had "formal" education before the white man? Excuses! The African was as educated as the avg Singaporean in the 60s uzembe plus lack of a defined focus is what made us lag behind


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