Graph of Canada's population vs worker productivity from FT.
Unsurprisingly, if you rapidly expand your population by importing millions of third worlders, per-worker productivity will go down.
The fact is we're not all equal. Canada's population is significantly smarter than the world average. Importing the rest of the world en-mass will inevitably degrade that advantage.
Making IQ tests a requirement for immigration would be a good start.
Many will hate you for saying this, but it's simply true.
IQ is a pretty dodgy measure. I agree with your point all the same.
IQ correlates quite well to overall life success. Obviously, that correlation won't be as good if the tests become a target that people intensively practice for. But that's true of any measure.
IQ being unreliable is basically an anti-scientific meme the left has become enamored with because IQ tests show very clearly that we're not all equal.
They're not worthless but I guess it depends on what you're rmtrying to measure. Treating the result as a measure of innate ability that can't change is wrong I think.
A lot of it is a function of how much time a person has been trained in certain kind of abstract reasoning, which for the majority is a proxy for how much (not completely dysfunctional) education have you received.
(Not talking about super high IQ scores, just 'this person is normally intelligent' scores)
People who tolerate being trained in abstract reasoning are the people with high IQ... No amount of training is going to make dumb people understand abstract thinking. People have different intellectual capacities. That's just the ugly reality.
True, but not everyone even gets the chance to be educated/trained.
...which is an important use-case for IQ tests: figuring out raw intelligence, before training.
But how could you do that at age 12+ in a country with a highly functioning education system?
Have you ever taken an IQ test? They're designed to test reasoning irrespective of education.
Oh yes. They are intended to, and I'm not claiming they're useless. I used the word 'dodgy' intentionally. I'm just claiming they'll naturally be biased by formal education, though they try not to be.
And?
This whole conversation is in the context of immigration. The people that you say IQ tests have a bias against – smart but uneducated people – shouldn't be allowed into Canada in the first place because they fail to meet the educational requirements for immigration!
What IQ tests will do is provide a secondary defense to educational transcript fraud. They check if someone actually is intelligent enough to be an improvement to the Canadian population.
Of course, IQ tests will inevitably say that hardly any people from many minorities should be allowed onto Canada... Which is exactly why there's so much opposition to IQ.
"IQ tests as a secondary defense to educational transcript fraud". Sure, I guess that works. Might not be the best way to check, but used in that way it's better than many other options. What really matters is how the test are organized and conducted.
(Though it does depend on what the immigrant is claiming to be qualified in - if, as some countries like Australia has done in the past, you are taking in immigrants qualified in service oriented fields, then IQ is maybe not the point.)
Indeed corruption in educational qualifications outside of the "western world" (speaking incredibly vaguely) is a huge problem (and unlike most westerners I speak from direct experience).
What's your IQ nostr:nprofile1qqsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7ysp3f3
I'm not sure exactly. But I was in the gifted program in Ontario when I was a kid; admission is in part based on an IQ test. So look up the 1995-era standards and I must have done better than that. 😂
IQ correlates to overall success - unless a high IQ individual is surrounded by short sighted,
fiat/power motivated, morons in leadership.
Overall success (long game) is still likely, however having to constantly dumb down intelligence to adapt to power constructs throttles and delays innovation and is like playing a game of telephone with 3 year olds.
Seems like those with high intelligence level are not just concerned not just with their own overall success, but the success of humanity in its many expressions of culture and sovereignty.
My grandfather was an immigrant, Mensa scholar, and graduated college at 14… I will never perform on an IQ test. Using an IQ test as an immigration assessment tool seems like a cloaked effort to prey on political emotions while creating arbitrary policies that are easily corrupted and manipulated towards the creation of digital surveillance and a technocratic control grid (CBDC:Social
Credit etc).
A lot of idiots can pass tests and many extremely wise human beings live in extreme poverty without access to education or resources.
But ya generally less dumb people
Better. Perhaps we should focus on the inside/out
nostr:nprofile1qqs82kcxtx2ts0gs6hdaywksurgdyhgtuzg26569ee3pv4ygm5c9qhspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2ap0vgp444 y'all have been talking about this for a while now
IQ tests are retarded
IQ is hard to test (simplified tests like Raven matrices are easy to cheat, and full tests like WAIS take several days, and depend on certified professionals). Educational level is easier to evaluate (just ask for school transcripts) and correlates strongly with IQ.
Also, high IQ with low education is undesirable, because that's how you create disgruntled and unemployable people. So IQ should not be evaluated alone, but in the context of education and employability.
Dude, everything is hard to measure.
Educational level isn't that easy to measure when you're talking about immigrants because transcripts get faked in many countries. Equally, not all educations are equal.
IQ tests (and language tests) are at least something we can measure on Canadian soil. And being able to do well on either type of test does at least corrolates with intelligence.
Anyway Canada previously relied on a points system, which including educational accomplishments. The current crisis is in part because we've been bypassing that system to import millions of people we previously wouldn't have allowed in on any basis.
I am always amazed at how the most prominent bitcoiners are totally incapable of analyzing political, social and even economic dynamics and come up with BS like this. Luckily I know how to tune out the noise otherwise my faith in bitcoin would also waver and I would go back to being a fiatcoiner.
Maybe inflation is eating into GDP growth (see link). Also Agriculture’s contribution to GDP might be falling. Agriculture. And agriculture doesn’t need high IQ :
Canada better vote for Pierre or they are absolute toast with this Bank of England shill Carney.
Correlation isn’t causation. Productivity declines can come from many factors—bad policies, lack of infrastructure, or economic shifts—not just immigration. Also, IQ as a singular metric for immigration is both reductionist and historically problematic. Shouldn’t we focus on skills, adaptability, and contribution instead of a flawed proxy for intelligence? Hi peter happy monday 🧡🫶🏴☠️
hey kike, how is your allergy?
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