Exactly. Though, the difference is ethnic composition in the region (which is a taboo subject). We don’t have numbers for NYC but it looks like it averages out to 100. Urban areas in the USA drive out the middle while keeping the top and amplifying the bottom. So even in places like Boston, which heavily skews all New England, (1//4 of the entire population), it still averages out to 104. I don’t know the recent numbers but it used to be that nearly half of the people that went to MIT and Harvard stayed in the area.
The regional differences are usually false because they use degrees as a proxy for IQ instead of IQ tests if they want to massage the data. So I try to stick with the state standard testing IQ data.
You get outliers like New Hampshire and Maine because they’re over 90% white, and have small populations. So they are closer to the anglo norm of 103-105 which is about the same as east asia. Except there are a WHOLE LOT of east asians and anglo Americans are only about 22% of the USA, and that’s dropping every year. Oddly, the German contribution is as large as the anglo but the average isn’t as high. And you’d think the Scotts Irish (south) would be an issue given the stereotypes, but while that was true early on it’s normalized over time.
In the UK the Anglicans average 114, which is about the same as the Ashkenazi – but the Ashkenazi distribution is wider producing more outliers over 140 by almost two to one. (Christian sects are sorted thorougly by IQ.)
When I spoke to Dr Lynn before he died, I was pretty sure that we’d lost about 15 pts in the UK since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. And he spent quite a bit of time agreeing and explaining why – reversal of asymmetric reproduction.
It’s very ‘impolitic’ but the pre-war eugenics movement in the US to stop the reproduction of criminals and the disabled was a good idea until the Germans made a horror show out of it. I have a great story about the Dooley family that tracked them for generations as malcontents, criminals, and the mentally ill. Another that tracked one woman’s children and their children for four generations, and that one family racked up millions and millions of public costs.
Immigration is going to bring us to unrecoverable levels fairly quickly. 🙁
I try to keep up with UK data, because as usual it’s 20 years behind us. And it doesn’t look very good there either.
Not sure this is appropriate to discuss with you – while I respect you a great deal, and I am respectful of your background, sometimes my ‘science’ is a little hard to take.
Apologies if so.
Affections. 😉
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