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Old 11-01-2007, 09:58 PM
Subfallen Subfallen is offline
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Default Thought experiment on link between culture and intelligence.

There is going to be an international lottery of sorts. Any country that meets the population requirements can enter. Here is how it works:

(1) Each country randomly selects 1,000,000 boys between 10 and 12 yrs old.
(2) Lottery officials administer IQ tests to the sample and take the 100 highest scorers into custody as a distinct "prize."
(3) The prizes are randomly reassigned new citizenship and residency, one prize per lottery country.

So, questions.

Do you think this is a zero-sum game? If not, what countries do you think would be +EV in this lottery and what countries would be -EV?

Would your answer change with a different age range? Say, 5-7 yrs?
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