Koko, a lowland gorilla born in 1971, is currently the most language-proficient nonhuman, according to the Gorilla Foundation, which teaches ASL to gorillas.
The gorilla has a vocabulary of more than a thousand signs, understands about 2,000 words of spoken English, and initiates most conversations with people, according to the foundation’s website.
Her IQ is between 70 and 95 on a human scale—100 is considered a “normal” human IQ.
Average IQ of a Somalian or Ethiopian is 68-69, meaning over half the migrants are literally not as smart as the lower ends of your average Gorilla like Koko.
Extrapolating from there, that would mean that Germany would literally have been better off importing 1 million Gorillas like Koko, dressed in human clothes, and turning them loose on the streets of Germany.
I would even bet there would have been fewer rapes, less drug dealing, and the Gorillas wouldn’t have been as great a cost, from a social services perspective. Their language skills would have been better, what with the signing, and not being Muslim, they wouldn’t have brought all the problems inherent to radical Islamists.
And if a liberal argues, tell them to argue with the IQ tests, because SCIENCE!
Koko feels ripe for Meme’ing, given she outclasses the average migrant in every way. I wonder if the Chans will ever take up that idea?
Tell others about r/K Theory, because Koko – that gorilla’s alright
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle! Ya can’t make this stuff up!
What about Harambe?
Okay, I LOL’d at this one. It would be even funnier if it weren’t so sadly true. Gorillas really would be better. Aside from the benefits you covered, they wouldn’t be petitioning for family reunification, demanding voting rights, or producing gorilla-human hybrids to further terrorize future generations.
You’re not the first to notice this:
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/35v6fk
I guess my old comic books were right after all…
May or may not be meme-able but posting it for fun anyway.
There are about a billion old ’60s DC Comics with covers playing on the “super-intelligent gorilla” trope. Surely there’s fodder there.
But a lot of them were Eeeevil — Gorilla Grodd, Monsieur Mallah, Titano…
Actual gorilla IQ is probably too low to measure. Gorilla instincts are much better than humans though.
Is Koko a Dreamer?
How did anyone arrived at the average IQ for Somali or Ethiopian refugees? That sounds like a completely made up number
You give IQ tests until you have a statistically significant sample from a suitably diverse range of participants that represent the national population.
Paul, check out https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
Scroll down, way down.
You mistook an average for a median. Should be more careful when making a post about intelligence.
You are mistaking “average” for “mean”, there are three kinds of “average”, the Mean, the Median and the Mode.
Re-read the blog, it acts like an IQ of ‘100’, the average, is the standard qualification to be considered a basic human being, but in actuality, it’s merely the world’s average. Thus, 50% of humans will naturally stray below 100…
You’re also ignoring the fact that abject poverty and health deficiencies will impair brain development for developing infants. Infectious diseases and starvation directs the body’s attention towards addressing these difficulties rather than brain development. It’s no surprise that countries starving and malaria-ridden are reporting people of lower intelligence.
Or just the fact that Somalians are lower life forms. Just look at Ilhan Omar.