there’s also the possibility of causality in the other direction—that good governance can raise the IQ of a population (through any number of mechanisms—better nutrition, better health care, better education, etc).
Again, finding correlation between IQ and quality of government constitutes weak evidence for the claim that increased IQ causes better government. Note that the authors of the paper made this claim too.
there’s also the possibility of causality in the other direction—that good governance can raise the IQ of a population (through any number of mechanisms—better nutrition, better health care, better education, etc).
Again, finding correlation between IQ and quality of government constitutes weak evidence for the claim that increased IQ causes better government. Note that the authors of the paper made this claim too.