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Old 10th Feb 2010, 23:03
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Blueskymine
 
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Wait 'till you start flying them around Krazy, they will drive you crazy!

The average IQ of indigenous people is around 70 points. Due to being an isolated small island population they did not have the chance and opportunity for mutations to occur randomly in the population, to evolve higher levels of intelligence which is why they look and act primitive. The population in Tasmania was so small and isolated they were considered to be the most primitive people in the world not even being able to 'make fire'.

Suddenly combine this with a modern lifestyle where lateral thinking and problem solving is required daily and you work out that they are not equipped to deal with what we impose on them.

There was a study done in Broome back in the 80's with Aboriginal children where they were asked to pick the larger quantity of fluid. A glass was poured into a tall thin glass, and a glass and a half poured into a short wide glass in front of them. 8/10 chose the tall thin glass.

You will see this often when trying to explain 5 seats in an aircraft mean 5 people, not 7 or 8.........it can take them a while to work it out

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