Haha i'm not reading anything from vdare some nonsense that would be. You can't refute the FACTS presented by Gladwell drawn from the studies of James Flynn though can you? Face it you're ideas are as backward as your hometown.
You obviously have a sub-100 IQ. Quite possibly, sub-85.
Gladwell offers nothing other than whimsy and supposition; his ideas are easily countered and revealed for the comedy they are - as they have indeed been by Steve Sailor.
Firstly, we can offer SEVERAL explosive analogies that destroy Gladwell, one of which is to point out the absurdity of Gladwell's "rice picking" theory wherein we highlight Gladwell's GLARING INABILITY to point toward African farming cultures that utilize black female African workers, and could thus be used - if we apply Gladwell's comical logic - to explain the workshy attitude of many black men in the US. Gladwell does NOT take his "logic" to their logical conclusions. He prefers instead to employ them selectively.
Let us not even get onto the Chinese whom do not have ancestry that can be traced back to those whom worked in the rice fields; never mind the other Asian cultures with a rich history of rice picking but no concomitant proficiency in math, doh!!
Gladwell, hasn't really thought his script through, then again, its not steeped in critical thought, but mere shallow whimsy.
Oh and, by the way; Gladwell has written NOTHING that can compare to the tome "IQ & the Wealth of Nations" by Messrs Lynn and Vanhanen, a written work that - MORE THAN ANY SOCIOLOGIST COULD DREAM OF - absolutely correlates IQ and GDP.
Not that you are a fuckwit or anything, eh?