Wenn ich wählen dürfte, wäre mir jedenfalls eine gut gezielte Kugel lieber als Hiebe mit der Machete.
Zurück zu meinem Lieblingsthema. Ich habe diese Woche – und darüber bin ich sehr glücklich – Byron Roths The perils of diversity erworben. Eine sehr gründliche und argumentative Auseinandersetzung mit dem Themenkomplex Einwanderung; der Autor ist Professor em. der Psychologie. Ich bitte um Kenntnisnahme und Diskussion dieses heute von mir angefertigten Exzerpts (etwaige Rechtschreibfehler gehen folglich auf meine Kappe):
S. 53:
It is important to understand the significance of these IQ gaps, since they are often dismissed as trivial or unimportant, and their persistence over time is generally not emphasized. An IQ difference of ten or fifteen points, for instance, results in widely differing numbers of those on the top and the bottom of distributions (…). Whereas 50% of the individuals drawn from a European population will have IQs over 100, the figure drops to 25% for those whose group mean is 90, and only about 16% for those whose group mean is 85.
S. 54: The figures for IQs associated with success in higher education, roughly a minimum IQ of 110, are even more striking. Approximately 25% of the European host population will surpass that figure, but only 10% of the population of the typical North African and West Asian country, and an even smaller percentage of those form the countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
These figures are not only important for economic success, but suggest a host of other problems associated with immigration. It has by now been well established that IQ correlates very highly with criminality and antisocial behavior (…). These correlations are found worldwide. (…) It is possible that these phenomena are linked to cultural and intellectual differences. It is also possible that ethnic groups are somewhat different in their temperamental makeup in impulse control and aggressiveness, and these may simply compound the problems posed by cultural and ability differences.
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