Why do people in the middle east have a low IQ? Is it because of sub-saharan African ancestry?
Yes, same thing with Brazil.
>>16609138The answer is Islam - it trains people to be mentally retarded as an article of faith. The smartest people in the world used to live in North Africa, from Carthage to Egypt. The most poetic people used to live in the Near East, from Canaan to Persia. And all of that was maintained through the Christian era even when Western Europe was living in the Dark Ages. It's only after the Ummah became the rule that intelligence took a nosedive.
>>16609138No, only Maghrebis and Yemenis have any significant sub Saharan ancestry
>>16609138It doesn't make sense because Nafris are the ones with highest Subsaharan ancestry
>>16609138Fucking cousins and goats. They are the most inbred people in the planet.
Islam orders them to murder all the people who aren't dumb enough to fall for Islam
>>16609138Incest
Ritualposting on /his/?
If it's a real phenomenon (and we know that shithole problems like childhood malnutrition fuck with the IQ of future generations) it's because repeated cousin marriage is terrible for the genome
>>16609138comically high consanguinity rates (as much as 30% in Saudi Arabia in Gaza.For those wondering Palestinian IQ stats they are as follows:Gaza is 67.9West Bank is 76Palestinians in Israel are 81
>>16609565>it's because repeated cousin marriage is terrible for the genomeBut it's not exactly repeated since they do marry out or with other villages. Isolated Bedouins aren't really the norm.
>>16609763>le 67 iq>utterly embarrass le highest iq jews on oct 7i dunno why israeli shills constantly talk about how stupid palis are. it makes your own military failures towards them look even more pathetic.
>>16609138IQ is just a metric for how well you buy into the abstract and the unreal that is shat out by modern society.
>>16609778yeah that's why it's 90 and not 80 and why the bedouin states are doing worst
>>16609763that's like the best proof anyone could ask for of a heavy environmental effect on IQ, they're the same fucking people and yet you see almost a full standard deviation of difference (and over that if you compare Syria/Jordan to Gaza, who are also basically the same people)
>>16609138it is going to be a combination of multiple factors such as sub-saharan ancestry, high consanguinity rates, a higher ingroup preference that might select negatively for IQ, polygamy might also put negative pressure on IQ, and lastly, I would argue that in some unique places, the Jiyza put on non-Muslims selected for the people who cannot pay to join the religion, therefore selecting the least intelligent of the non-Muslim population to be removed from it creating a eugenic filter on the dhimmi population and dumping the lowest performing population on the Muslim majority (e.g. Coptic Christians in Eygpt). This is how you get the modern IQ levels in the MENA.
>>16609138Inbreeding, MENA do better in America than most Whites.
>>16611672isn't that simply due to the American selective immigration policy
>>16609138subsaharan admixture might have a small effect but mostly it'\s caused by multigenerational cousin marriage.Multigenerational cousin marriage depresses IQ in 2 ways.1. makes you more inbred which depresses IQ2. it prevents assortative mating which is part of what allowed Europeans to raise their IQs. Assortative mating is when men tend to choose to mate with women who match their genetic potential for IQ or raising their socioeconomic status. This causes populations to become more dispersed in terms of IQ and combined with a selection pressure filtering out the stupidest and causing them to have fewer kids, it means the population will select for high IQ quicker than if there is no assortative mating. Assortative mating is essentially leverage for any pre-existing selection effect and helps it happen faster.source: Gregory Clark for whom the bell curve tolls.
>>16610239>they're the same fucking people and yet you see almost a full standard deviation of differenceBut they aren't the same people. Palestinians in Israel were not randomly drawn from Palestinians in the west Bank. There was a selection process. The Palestinians in Israel are the ones rich enough to bribe their way in or rich enough or educated enough in law to legally force their way win, or they're the ones with a more libertarian, individualistic personality who don't care about their ancestral home as much (positively correlated with IQ)Palestinians in ISrael are disproportionately drawn from the most successful and highest IQ segments of the palestinian ethnic group.So this will also explain some of the difference in the IQ between the groups in addition to environmental effects like nutrition and education.
>>16609138Yes
