What are some explanations for lack of Africa's development

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IQ

Development requires necessity. Lush environments, predictable weather patterns without major external forces or competition usually leads to nothing. Basic tribal societies.

>>3372113
>but don't bring in Egypt or anywhere in NA because that isn't Africa

>>3372157

Well to be fair none of these places are very developed these days, though I wont deny their great achievements in the past. This thread is unlikely to survive but if people know of actual good research into this, I'd love to hear it. You can't deny that Africa is the lagging child of the world, and there must be reasons for this other than muh niggers or muh colonization.

neanderthal genes.

low level equilibrium trap

Africa is where humans are adapted to survive so there was no pressure for human behavior to advance beyond basic necessity

also it took humans there longer to find a cultivatable source of carbs (yams) and by the time they found it most of the rest of the world had already advanced so much there was no chance of catching up.

>>3372157
Might as well compare Siberia to India cause they are on the same landmass.

>>3372196
I can only hope you're being ironic

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>>3372113
>What are some explanations for the answer to 2+2 that do not include maths or numbers? I feel like there is something a little more obvious that explains it all.

>>3372140
>Lush environments
You mean like the Mediterranean and ancient Mesopotamia? Yeah, what have they ever accomplished?
>predictable weather patterns without major external forces
Like Northern Europe? Yeah, I guess they are snow niggers after all.

I guess we can conclude that Inuits are the master race.

>>3372121
Stefan "me being an idiotic reductionist is not an argument" Molyneux approves

>>3372381
Or, more logically, you could compare them to the peoples in the Amazonian rainforest

>>3372113

One the very small chance that this isn't bait, Africa has many natural barriers which make exploration very difficult. There are many steep mountain ranges, many deep canyons, the Sahara desert and other deserts, rainforests which are also hazardous but for the opposite reasons, dangerous wildlife like Lions, and whole laundry list of nasty diseases and parasites that all conspire together to make development hard. Europeans did not even seriously begin to explore Africa until the 19th century. By then, North America was already completely mapped out for the most part. With the exception of Anarctica, Africa is the continent which proved to be most dangerous in terms of natural hazards.

>>3372113
Yeah, simple. They're retarded fucking dumbass niggers.

>>3372439
lol

>>3372113
it's litterally just about IQ. Of course you can describe lots of other factors that come into play, but the single biggest reason for the eternal underdevelopment of those countries is their low average intelligence.
Think about it this way: if you're college educated, you probably think about people with an IQ of 100 as being pretty dumb. Your least intelligent friends and acquaintances probably hover around 80 or 90. Now imagine a society where those people would be above average in terms of IQ. How would that look like?
Not /pol/, I don't want to believe this. Pls provide good evidence against this if you can.

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Lack of easily accessible resources.
Lack of easily native flora and fauna suited for domestication attempts.
Massive natural barriers.
Environment where humans evolved in so less urgency to try to advance past humanity's original tech level.
Everyone who was worth of damn left the continent behind and went to colonize rest of the world.

>>3372627
If you don't want to believe that, either you're a /pol/fag in denial or your not trying hard enough.

>>3372661
Why? I believe IQ is a good measurement of intelligence, and a great predictor of productivity and success. I have also looked at the IQ test results in Africa and the averages are incredibly low. There may be methodological problems in many studies but there are many good ones, and they all point in the same direction.
I say I don't want to believe that because of the consequences of the fact. I would like it if every population was basically equal and the differences were just cultural and skin-deep, but I don't find any compelling evidence of that. If you have any, pls share.

>>3372715
>I believe IQ is a good measurement of intelligence
And that's where the problem lies. IQ is not nearly as good an indicator of intelligence as you think it is. It's extremely reliant on having been taught abstract thinking and problem solving skills, things you're taught in schools who's quality relies on one's wealth. No matter where in the world you go, IQ has correlation with poverty but try to contemplate the possibility that poverty is the cause low IQ, not the other way around. Simply having a culture that heavily emphasises standardised testing can improve your score, see east Asia as an example.

>>3372113
>What are some explanations, apart from the obvious explanations

>>3372791
If a group is like 60 IQ but live in the desert like the San does it sound credible to say that a child with the equivalent adult IQ could survive in that environment alone or that adult San are retarded. This is despite real retardation being much much much more debilitating at those numbers where basically you need another person to do even function?

>>3372791
>poverty is the cause low IQ
well this isnt the case cause we know the majority of someone's intellect is genetic the vast majority of all human intellect is passed from parent to child

ITT: People with no educational or psychological schooling talk about intelligence and IQ as if their opinions are backed by anything but feelings

>>3372992
>If a group is like 60 IQ
>60 IQ
Stop talking, you clearly don't understand how cripplingly retarded you are if you score this low. These are the people who need help taking a shit.

>>3373027
Intelligence? Yes.

IQ scoring ability? No.

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>>3372325
Because the Party says so, comrade

>>3372113
It's populated by a race that self-selected for a complete lack of curiosity and ambition.

African blacks are the humans who never ventured beyond the place they initially evolved in. They're the anthropological equivalent of that loser you knew in high school who's never left his hometown and is still working the same Walmart cashier job he got after 12th grade a decade ago.

>>3373153
same thing

>>3372381
No you ass. Read it again. Lush environments, where you don't need to work for food means you don't need to develop complex social structures.

>>3373256
>where you don't need to work for food means you don't need to develop complex social structures.

They ahd to work for food though dumbfuck.

>>3373027
This. Most North Koreans would technically be poor as shit, but their IQ is likely very similar if not exactly the same as South Koreans.

>>3372113
I know you said geography but that actually has something to do with it, the closer you are to the poles of the earth the higher your IQ is. Niggers are very close to the equator and they have one of the lowest IQs other than Australian Aboriginals.

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>>3372113
EVERYTHING in human history is and will be predetermined by geography.

Try to build the Roman Empire in Africa, spoiler: you can't. The very ground you walk wants to kill you. Insects, hippos, panthers, lions, bacteria, disease, squalor.
you're really asking for too much out of a continent that humans *had* to migrate out of, and we did for good reason, because it's so fucking hard to thrive there, let alone survive there.

Is this really too hard to observe?

>>3373705
A bunch of low IQ british convicts built one of the richest countries of the world on a barren rock. It really is all about low african average IQ.

>>3373749
Retarded post. If you're talking about Australia then they were under the command of their superiors. The working conditions for Australian convicts were very harsh. The skin on their hands would peel off from all the limestone they worked with. They built the very prisons they lived in.

crawl back to /pol/ and miss me with that retarded pseudo scientific racial essentialism bullshit

>>3373819
>. The working conditions for Australian convicts were very harsh
Well yes, my point exactly. Yet modern australians don't seem to suffer much from the "legacy of oppression" which would prevent them from speaking english properly and not committing crimes.

Nigs have no excuse.

>>3372627
dont cha just love simple answers for complex qustions makes my brainlet brain nice and comfy

>>3373819
>If you're talking about Australia then they were under the command of their superiors. The working conditions for Australian convicts were very harsh. The skin on their hands would peel off from all the limestone they worked with. They built the very prisons they lived in.

this doesn't in any way refute what >>3373749
said at all

>>3373842
Ever heard of Occam's razor?

>>3373749
They had the power and support of the British Empire anon. COMPLETELY different

>>3373954
Also Australia didn't have just convicts

>>3373954
So did colonized Africa...

>>3373304
Lol no with all the malnutrition and studying + an ancient education system poor as fuck for the people

>>3373965
A a different scenario is easily seen in each.

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The obvious answer is socialism, and lack of capitalism.

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>>3373857
it takes more mental gymanastics to say that people in a entire continent of thousands of ethnic groups are all mentally inferior to people of lighter skin color then it is to say there was a multitude of environmental factors that made creating large civilizations much harder in Africa then other continents

>>3373975
Right, the Australians had it worse.

>>3374003
How does it take mental gymnastics? It's totally in sync with the observation that blacks, wherever they live (in America, in Europe, in Australia, etc.) are always the poorest, most criminal and least educated population, and that every single IQ study ever conducted has shown that blacks have a low average IQ.

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>>3372325

>>3373968
malnutrition is shown to not affect IQ levels

>>3372113
Were there ever any sophisticated African religions? Like Abrahamic or Buddhist tier, not that animist shit.

I think the influence of religion on society's micro behaviors is sorely underestimated.

You see that big chunk of sand in the north?

>>3374093
It extremely fuck with development of the body.

>>3374966
>not that animist shit.

That animosity shit is pretty deep though. You just don't really give it credit because of the stigma behind it.

There's vodou as well which is extremely misunderstood.

>>3374966
animism is hardly an unsophisticated religion

>>3372113
they have big juicy cocks

>>3372113

Isolation from the centers of civilization and a low general iq.

>>3375024

Animism is literally the baseline, its the religion of savages living in the jungles and of all our most ancient ancestors.

>>3375059
he asked why, not your opinion of it

>>3372113
You are such a pathetic faggot, the previous time you made this post(#283736383) I started posting pics of African history and art. Because nobody took your shitty bait to regurgitate the same backwash of the day before the mods deleted the thread. This board is lost to them, they mods support this devolvement into pol2.0

>>3372113
Penis size.

When you can please your woman sexually, you're much less likely to go building man caves just to get away from her.

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Sage

>>3372113
Here's a short video that brilliantly describes exactly why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C4_88ub_M

>>3372113
what would have happened if germanics didnt make contacts with romans?

oh yeah, no civ from them, they all would be freezing in the north

>>3372627
>Greeks made civilization
>they only have an IQ of 92
makes ya think

>>3373262
This is a consequence, not a cause. They were enslaved because they were less "evolved", not the other way around.

>>3372113
>It's an african thread again
>It's an African thread that implicitly want to talk about African low IQ being the cause of Africa underdevelopment and not the actual causes of Africa underdevelopment
Fuck you and everyone who starts these threads. Now I literally cringe whenever I see a map of Africa.

>>3372428
More like every days

>>3375059
That would explain the Irish

>>3375527
>>leftypol

>>3375219
Fuck that shorty film and the fags that jerk off to it