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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Ban coffee?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:33:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-31, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
> In article <vsd2l6$38jd0$2@dont-email.me>, 
> Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>> 
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:55:38 -0600, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> >On 2025-03-30 4:10 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> On 2025-03-30 3:50 p.m., Graham wrote:
>> >>> On 2025-03-30 1:05 p.m., Bruce wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>>> Why do Scandinavia and the Netherlands always win everything?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Scandinavian countries are mostly secular.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> That shows, once again, that religion holds people back. It has a
>> >>>> retarding effect.
>> >>>>
>> >>> Stats show that the USA is increasingly secular but even if they
>> >>> were in the minority, the religious would still dominate.
>> >> 
>> >> Secular has more to do with the official relationship between the church 
>> >> and the state, or lack thereof. The church is still quite prominent in 
>> >> Scandinavia. Denmark has a Evangelical Lutheran Church is the state church.
>> >> 
>> >But how many attend?
>> 
>> 3% regularly. This confirms my theory that the bigger a country is,
>> the more retarded its population is. My other theory is that the
>> further people live from the ocean, the more retarded they are. These
>> two theories combined explain fly-over Americans.
>
>    Yolur theory is undermined by China. IQ in China is 7 
> points higher than in USA  (104/97)

Do they test everybody, or just the smart ones?

I'm willing to believe they're smarter, but not on the basis
of 104 vs. 97.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton