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Kobojunkie:
From the very same link you posted  . . .

Illiteracy is a disease. . . becareful to make sure you do not have it! Simply claiming ability to read is usually not enough as people can easily tell if you can or you cannot. Lack of It might show you an imbe-cile by your own post if you are not careful.

Lol. Talk about illiteracy! U dummy, wut the hell were u doing showing me what I already stated? Were u blind at what I wrote below? You know, b4 u start stu.p.idly proclaiming urself as intelligent u should always learn to comprehend what u read:

bk/babe90:
I went and did some research and, voila, wut did I discover: Technically, Abia state is a Niger-Delta state (becus your former president, for political reasons, in 2000 added it to the list), in reality tho, Abia state is not a Niger-Delta state!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta

onye_ngbu:
Your arguments are always vague and incoherent, there are more intelligent ways of telling this loser of a kenyaman off.

Can someone else do that please.

Beast! Seems like someone's been having a hard-on, laying in wait trying to ambush me for eons. Aight, check it monkey:YOU FAILED, BIG TIME! Dont u see how stupid u are? U dummy, now ure gonna teach me how to "tell someone off"?!? Typical "controlling" Ibo man u r, huh? My "arguments are always vague and incoherent"? lol. Did u just learn those words? Does it seem like I was arguing or stating an observation? You Ibo men tire me!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Development: Why Nigerians, others have low IQs -Study

NNAEMEKA MERIBE


Controversy is trailing a new study that suggests that people in third world countries develop stronger immune systems at the expense of intelligence. NNAEMEKA MERIBE writes.


Nigerians, others have low IQs



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People in developing countries like Nigeria are not as intelligent as those in the developed climes because diseases have chained the former's initiative, suggests a new study by United States scientists.

The report claims that people in developing countries where diseases are rife have lower intelligence quotients because their bodies divert energy from brainpower to fighting diseases.

In hot nations blighted by deadly infections, the priority is survival and populations have evolved to develop stronger immune systems rather than intelligence, insists the controversial theory.

Already, some critics are warning that the study can stoke the fire of racism if it is suggesting that people in the developing countries are not as intelligent as those in cooler, richer climes, according to The Mail of London.

Others pointed out that the ancient Persians, Greeks and Romans lived in hot climates and still boasted extraordinary civilisations.

However, a development scholar, Prof. Ikechukwu Nwosu, says the study is suspicious, arguing that while disease and poverty can affect performance, their relationship with IQ "is not sustainable." He says that there are many intervening variables affecting IQ development and diseases are just one of them.

The scientists claim that their report, which was released last week, can explain why national IQ scores vary around the world and are lower in some warmer countries stricken by diseases such as malaria, tetanus and tuberculosis.

The researchers behind the theory claim the impact of disease on IQ scores has been under-appreciated, and believe it ranks alongside education and wealth as a major factor that influences cognitive ability, reports The Guardian of London.

Attempts to measure intelligence around the world are fraught with difficulty and many researchers doubt that IQ tests are a suitable tool for the job. The average intelligence of a nation is likely to be governed by a web of interwoven factors.

The latest theory, put forward by Randy Thornhill and others at the University of New Mexico, The Guardian of London notes, adds disease to a long list of environmental and other issues that may all play a role in determining intelligence. Thornhill made the news in 2000, when he co-authored a provocative book called A Natural History of despoil in which he argues that sexual coercion emerged as an evolutionary adaptation.

Writing in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Thornhill and his colleagues explain that children under five devote much of their energy to brain development. When the body has to fight infections, it may have to sacrifice brain development, they say.

To test the idea, Thornhill's group used three published surveys of global IQ scores and compared them with data from the World Health Organisation on how badly infectious diseases affect different countries. The list included common infections, such as malaria, tetanus and tuberculosis.

The scientists found that the level of infectious diseases in a country was closely linked to the average national IQ. The heavier the burden of disease, the lower the nation's IQ scores. Thornhill believes that nations who have lived with diseases for long periods may have adapted, by developing better immune systems at the expense of brain function.

"The effect of infectious disease on IQ is bigger than any other single factor we looked at," said Chris Eppig, lead author on the paper. "Disease is a major sap on the body's energy, and the brain takes a lot of energy to build. If you don't have enough, you can't do it properly."

"The consequence of this, if we're right, is that the IQ of a nation will be largely unaffected until you can lift the burden of disease," Eppig added.

"It's an interesting and provocative finding," the director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Mr. Geraint Rees, tells The Guardian of London.

"It explains about 50 to 60 per cent of the variability in IQ scores and appears to be independent of some other factors such as overall Gross Domestic Product."

"The authors suggest that more infectious diseases could lead to lower IQ scores through an impact on brain development. This is an interesting speculation, but the data don't prove it one way or the other," he said.

"A bigger problem is that it might be driven by a third factor that affects both infectious disease prevalence and IQ test scores."

For reasons that are unclear, IQ scores are generally rising around the world. Thornhill suggests monitoring rates of infectious diseases in nations as they develop, to see if they decline and IQ tests scores rise.

Critics of the study, however, argue that there are many different kinds of intelligence that Western academic-based IQ tests fail to measure.

Low IQ does not necessarily translate into stupidity or incompetence, they said. People in hot countries have the intellectual skills to survive in very difficult environments.

The research could be abused to rationalise racism, just as the Nazis perverted scientific study in the 1930s, some critics, according to The Guardian of London.

Experts pointed out that children fighting debilitating diseases are likely to miss a lot of school, which could be the real reason for a lower IQ score, not compromised brain development.

Nwosu, who is the immediate past director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Nigeria, says nobody is born with low IQ but environmental factors can affect IQ development.

"I agree with the study that diseases can affect IQ development but I disagree with it if it is suggesting people in developed countries have higher IQ than people in developing countries," says Nwosu who is currently the Dean of the Business Faculty of University of Nigeria.

"From that perspective the study is suspicious. Yes, certain conditions may affect one's capacity to develop one's IQ to the optimum, but nobody is born with low IQ whether in developed or developing countries. There are people in developing countries with high IQ; there are also people in developed countries with low IQ."

But a professor of psychology at Ulster University, Richard Lynn, said disease and IQ are a two-way relationship, with low national IQs being partly responsible for widespread infectious diseases.

"In recent decades, HIV has been a serious infectious disease, and it has a high infection rate in low IQ countries, especially in southern Africa, where it is present in around 30 per cent of the population … This is attributable to the low IQ of the population who do not understand the way the infection is contracted, and have erroneous beliefs about how to prevent infection."

Indeed, the claims of the new study will excite Lynn as they are similar to the claims made in the controversial 2002 book, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, which he co-authored with Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.

The central argument of IQ and the Wealth of Nations is that the average IQ of a nation correlates with its Gross Domestic Product; that is, low GDP can cause low IQ, just as low IQ can cause low GDP. The authors state that average IQ differences between nations are due to both genetic and economic factors.

 The book includes the authors' calculation of average IQ scores for 81 countries, based on their analysis of published reports. For 104 of the 185 nations, no studies were available. In those cases, the authors used an estimated value by taking averages of the IQs of neighbouring or comparable nations.

The authors assigned Hong Kong the highest IQ estimate of 107 followed by South Korea which they assigned 106 and Japan, which was assigned 105.

Morocco was assigned the highest 1Q average in Africa-85, followed by Egypt-83. The authors assigned Zambia the highest in sub-Saharan Africa-77, followed by Congo Brazzaville and Uganda which were both assigned 73. Nigeria was assigned 67 behind Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Ghana.



http://odili.net/news/source/2010/jul/6/805.html

Nothing wack about dem niccas. Had to listen to some of they shiyyt more than once (cus of they accent), but on the whole:T.IG.H.T!

This is a fake Kenyan! Faker than a $3 bill! Lol. How I know he aint Kenyan?:

A. Kenyans do not write good english, ever! They cant speak it too good either!

B. Notice when referring to Nigeria he subconsciously refers to it as "WE", like in his posting below:

kenyaman:
Mr. Fire,


I think it is wrong to assume that in Nigeria only Nigerians riside or settle. We have numerous embasies in Nigeria.

But then he turned around and killed Mr Ken Saro-Wiwa (with the acquiescence of Ojukwu, of course)!

ikeyman00:
@@@@@@@@

we have been watchin u fool

but emmm ahahh; we are beginning to see who they are

hey wonder what u make of your white master insinuation over black men despoil em

u are idoit!! u are for real

feeling like u are having a shot; u aint doing jerk; get it;nutter

Em, english please, I dont speak "Gorilla" !

Aloy+Emeka:
Apparently you are alien to Nigerian culture but can quickly decipher tribes from the names. Your hoopla is on you.

You really are a fooool, like any typical Ibo man that knows the alphabets up to the letter "J". Ok, Detective Tom Foolery, considering my history, would I be considered "alien" to Nigerian culture as u so wantonly, ignorantly, and deceptively claim?!!? You dunce, I see a name with "Chukwu" in it (which I know means God in Ibo) and u expect me to crack my brains as to which tribe he's from?Wow.

   Anyways, like I said: "Why should we be surprised at the actions of this Ibo man?". Infact, my only surprise is that he aint maim or murder the store keeper!

Kobojunkie:
uumm . . . not to call you an , but if you have not realized by now that ABIA Is a NIGER DELTA state, then it is probably a good idea for you to UPGRADE on your source of information there so you do not continue to appear an each time you do post your thoughts.

I've been reading ur posts all along and its clear that either: (a) You have a mental problem, or; (b) You just have a simple problem comprehending wuteva it is u read.
Thruout this thread u've tried ur best to derail it by fomenting discord. Not only that, uve also shown how unintelligent u really are by claiming Abia state is a Niger-Delta state. If there are issues of Nigeria I know quite a bit about "The Niger-Delta" ranks just below "Ojukwu" as my "expert" subjects. lol. I went and did some research and, voila, wut did I discover: Technically, Abia state is a Niger-Delta state (becus ur former president, for political reasons, in 2000 added it to the list), in reality tho, Abia state is not a Niger-Delta state!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta

Hmmmn, an Ibo man is violent? Oh, I'm so surprised!!!

makajibbz:
for me:
1 sani lulu
2 obasanjo
3 Tinibu
4 george Bush
5 gbenga daniels
they're plenty, i won kill all of them house of reps,senators,kogi governor
so on,

Ah, now u direct ur DEATH threats against the immediate past president of the United States of America!!! I sincerely hope, for ur sake, that ure nowhere in the Western World!

Ah, mental gong, as usual u dont deserve a reply from his royal highness, so, poof, vamoose, son-of-a. . . . .


Yes mama gee its fake!!! u stay putting people's pix on ur profile and pretending that thats u. remember the last one oyinda outted u? ok, then!

More like CelebSNITHCHES! They start beef wit u then turn around and complain to the mods. Now,the mods,being a buncha incompetent monkeys don't even investigate. Its a case of "celebrity complained so he/she gotta b right". You got picked on then u get banned! A list of these snitches include: Mekuuyzzxs, Eziachi, Sonny_bobo, WilyWily, Platinumk, The Amaka, Michelin, Andre Uweh, Ezeuche, Dede1, Mental_gong etc! Bottomline: Nairaland celebrity=hopeless, unemployed human!

@Michelin: the bk99 and two others still exist (thanx for asking). I tried to pay ur "student" loans as u told me everytime u left home at 11pm (in ur skimpy clothes )that u was going to "classes". I tried to make out a check on ur behalf to " Universidad De Prostituta de Milan" but I was told such a school don't exist. Could me please call me and give me the info again so that I can pay ur student loans? Talk to u lata!

I aint seen the picture because I'm on my phone,still,I have to agree with you that whutever the guy in the above pic looks like, he does look ibo!lol

Exactly! I guess the length of the relationship also matters. If u do it outta kindness aint nothing wrong with that. I paid off my daughter's mom's student loans. We aint have no child then. I guess love, sense of responsibility and me just tryn to help her ease her burden played a part in my decision. I'd do it again if time reversed!

Listen to Honeric0, dude is God-sent;talk like u from Bushwick, u heard! Call her "ho" and "binch" at every turn. She'll take it as a term of endearement! Call her pops "n.igga" etc u good! She come out her mouth punch her silly. Bottom-line, let babygal know u the man every lil chance u get!

No poster, u aint crazy, u just a st.u.pid, effing, sucka!!! She playing u dawg, can't u see? Next thing she gone sleep with the mail man and she gone tell u cus she know u a lame!

U fake, pretentious monkey! U know u wished the man had been harmed just becus he yourba! Tribalist!

I dreamt that I was in a 2010 Aston Martin, speeding down the Jackie Rob wit a bad ho by my side. All a sudden I woke up and realized I was parked on the side of the road. I had fallen asleep on the shoulder,pissy drunk, on my way back from the club.I was still in my 2008 CL600. Wut does this dream mean?!?

On the other hand, since me and Chiogo are now divorced I wouldn't mind marryn Abekeade and/ or Thoniaslim!

Is the poster tryn to make fun of Platinumk? Cus she fell in luv wit two guys online in 2009 and kept sendn em money only to find out that she had been scammed!lol. Funny desperate chic

THE AMAKA:
[color=#ff1199]hahaha i know, i know.
"love love love" or "lust lust lust"


TO MY LOVELY DAVID!!!

[size=3pt]*freak in the morning, a freak in the evening

just call me up and i'll be there when you need me

when ever you want me, you can come and see me

cause you know just what to do

you give me the business. . . * [/size] [/color]

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love man, its all luv!!! Eff this, Im off to the club cant stay here doing nada. lataz!!!