[yrgulation]

Generalising about the south in the us is as wrong as generalising about the rest of the world.

Incidentally in most european countries you find jokes about the south of the same countries as in the us. Its just something we do with people far and different we look at their ways and call them dumb.

The article tho has made an attempt at proving it with science. Correlation does not imply causation.

You cant simply draw the conclusion that a mass of people are dumb and then make up the science to prove it. Sure there individual and small localised groups affected by it but not whole nations or even massive areas of a country.

Edit: even here on this forum, there is anecdata from people that grew up in poverty with little to eat or poor nutrition yet they perform well given the opportunity. Some from the west, some from asia.

[inglor_cz]

Anecdata can be a distraction from general principles.

There are disabled people who climbed Mount Everest, but that does not mean that disability is irrelevant for your chances.

[User23]

> There are disabled people who climbed Mount Everest, but that does not mean that disability is irrelevant for your chances.

More accurately, there are disabled people who have had sherpas drag them up Mount Everest. To be fair, that's what most so-called mountaineers do these days.

[User23]

It's interesting, because in Germany the southerners are observably much more technically accomplished than the northerners. But there's still that you don't speak High German prejudice.