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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Has a sub-Saharan African ever won a Nobel prize in science or mathematics? I'm not knocking Obama or Nelson Mandela, but they didn't really demonstrate extreme feats of intelligence to earn their prizes. It was more a matter of leadership.

But to your point, I started using the phrase *capacity* for intelligence because when I just said "average intelligence" people would say, "Of course ethnicities don't have the same average intelligence. They don't have access to the same education, nutrition, parenting etc..." So I started saying capacity for intelligence to indicate **all things other things being equal.** Capacity being another word for potential intellgence, or intelligence in an ideal environment. So maybe I should start saying "average capacity for intelligence" but that would just be too wordy haha
gpt
How is Obama, a mixed-race American, a sub-Saharan African?

Either way, leadership is most definitely a facet of intelligence, and I'm pretty sure there have been (non-white) Nobel prize winners from sub-Saharan Africa.

&gt; But to your point, I started using the phrase capacity for intelligence because when I just said "average intelligence" people would say, "Of course ethnicities don't have the same average intelligence. They don't have access to the same education, nutrition, parenting etc..." So I started saying capacity for intelligence (...)

But that's the problem.

Average intelligence isn't equal by country, but it's affected by so many factors that it's debatable if it can even be tied to ethnicity; capacity for intelligence is, actually, pretty equal for all ethnicities; as for average capacity for intelligence, it can't be measured...