Comments on: Out of this country http://www.gnxp.com/new/2003/02/27/out-of-this-country/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: Randall Parker http://www.gnxp.com/new/2003/02/27/out-of-this-country/#comment-31089 Sat, 01 Mar 2003 20:55:00 +0000 #comment-31089 I think the problem with so much foreign policy blogging is that a lot of it is just news reporting with some ranting added in. I try to discuss the root causes of problems and why some problems have no easy solution. Too much blogging on politics amounts to ranting for one’s faction and one’s ideology. Well, there are very difficult problems out there coming at us from foreign lands and we need to come to realize just how difficult some of them are to solve.

Razib, yes, a lot of people are covering foreign policy. But few are trying to identify the basic questions about it or better policy solutions.

]]> By: Dan http://www.gnxp.com/new/2003/02/27/out-of-this-country/#comment-31088 Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:07:00 +0000 #comment-31088 As well as effecting political development, I have been wondering for a while is consanguinity largely responsible for the lower IQ’s in India, Pakistan and the Middle East. I have read it does reduce intelligence, and over dozens of generations surely the cumulative effect would be sizeable. Of coures with Jews, who were less consanguinous anyway, eugenic mating would have outwayed any negative effect(in relation to intelligence). In contrast, the great consanguinity, along with black miscegenation amongst Arabs may have far outwayed the eugenic effects of concubinage, a practice that may have greatly boosted East Asian intelligence. Any thoughts?

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