TY - JOUR PY - 2009// TI - On a dubious theory of cross-country differences in intelligence JO - Journal of evolutionary psychology A1 - Denny, Kevin SP - 341 EP - 346 VL - 7 IS - 4 N2 - Kanazawa (2007) offers an explanation for the variation across countries of average intelligence. It is based on the idea that human intelligence is a domain specific adaptation and that both temperature and the distance from some putative point of origin are proxies for the degree of novelty that humans in a country have experienced. However, the argument ignores many other considerations and is a priori weak and the data used questionable. A particular problem is that in calculating distances between countries it implicitly assumes that the earth is flat. This makes all the estimates biased and unreliable. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)
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