Miles Kimball on Noah Smith and Garett Jones
From a recent post by Miles Kimball:
Thanks to Scott Sumner for highlighting this interesting and accessible piece by Garett Jones here. . . .
In the title “National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia,” having read Noah Smith’s diatribe against the Asian “hive mind” stereotype, I recommend ignoring the phrase “Hive Mind.” Also, since IQ depends a lot on how hard people study, I interpret “IQ” as a measure of human capital that may be superior in many ways to just counting years of schooling. In any case, this set of facts is quite intriguing.
P.S. My previous post was (I thought obviously) intended to be humorous. I don’t actually consider myself to be an a racist. Perhaps some people missed the point. (However the bad grammar was real–I attended a state school in the laissez-faire 1963-73 period. I never learned grammar in school and basically write the way I hear other people talk. I wrote one short paper in college and one short paper in grad school. I now write more words every week than I wrote between the ages 18 and 26 (excluding exams).
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2. November 2012 at 10:16
Everyone’s a little bit racist.
2. November 2012 at 12:41
However the bad grammar was real-I attended a state school in the laissez-faire 1963-73 period. I never learned grammar in school and basically write the way I hear other people talk. I wrote one short paper in college and one short paper in grad school.
Wow that parallels my story. I am much worse than you but I do not blame the schools, something is deficient in my brain.
4. November 2012 at 06:33
Floccina, I have that same bad gene.
4. November 2012 at 21:19
Doug M, apparently psychologists have actually proved that…