
Why is the West Special? | Joe Henrich & Richard Hanania
CSPI Podcast
Is There a Correlation Between Adoption and IQ?
In general, people in cities are horrible at spatial navigation. Cities tend to have higher IQs than everywhere else. So it's likely that they're not related or they're negatively. I haven't seen these kinds of adoption studies you would need to to confirm that. What I have seen is the opposite. When different populations grow up in the same society that values economic success, we do see differences in cognitive performance.
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