Roland K

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[Roland K @EtorK3]

@Blackmercii2 Not sure about this product, but in the case of yam, the Western world stopped importing Nigerian yam due to quality issues. And now Nigerians just bring their yam to add to Ghana's yam and label it all as "Made In Ghana". Ghana is doing you guys a huge favor here...

[Roland K @EtorK3]

The British and French really did us a disservice by separating us from our real brothers in CIV and Togo, and forcing us into whatever relationship this is with Nigeria. They need to just leave us alone, smh

[Robinho @deolarepublic]

On the Ghanaian side, it’s not hate. It’s envy.

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@madamchoicfn @elikem_tay @georgeeSpikey At best, ur would be an abbreviation of your, not you're. That's the point that keeps flying over your head 😂🤣

[𝐀𝐒𝐊 @askghmedia]

A foreign national was amazed by the generosity of Ghanaians he encountered and surprised them with GH¢1000 each after a driver offered him a free ride and others willingly gave him items they were selling when he pretended he had no money.

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@mr_selormey @JerryXhandle Good point, but their very existence is artificial. That forest became submerged when the Akosombo dam was created and water flooded the area. It's more ecological to harvest that while preserving the surface forests

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@LaryeaJoshua_1 @JerryXhandle I don't think you understood him. He's talking about the trees that are submerged at the bottom of the lake. No one is going to survive at lake bottom for long

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@506jw @x1s214 Except she didn't become atheist, she simply upgraded to a better religion.

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@FacistColonizer @RadioGenoa There has never been widespread IQ testing done throughout Africa:

[Alfred @CallmeAlfredo]

You sometimes see a table claiming that African countries, including Ghana, have the lowest IQs in the world. The most widely shared version is on Business Insider Africa.

Business Insider cites CEOWORLD magazine. CEOWORLD did not test anyone. Its figures match, to two decimal places, a 2019 dataset compiled by Richard Lynn and David Becker.

Now look at what is inside that dataset.
Sierra Leone's score of 45 rests on one study from 1966. Mali's rests on a single sample. South Sudan's comes from refugee children. Ghana's 58.16 appears to be the average of a small set of test samples and Ghana's TIMSS school assessment scores, rescaled and relabelled as IQ.

An IQ below 70 is the usual threshold for intellectual disability. A national average of 58 would mean most Ghanaians could not hold a job, run a business or raise a family. Anyone who has spent a day in Accra knows that is absurd.

The dataset's own author agrees there is a problem. Becker wrote in 2019 that differences between countries scoring below 60 are more likely measurement error than real differences in intelligence. He also wrote that the dataset is not suitable for comparing two individual countries.

The dataset was never peer reviewed, which Becker himself calls a weak point. Yet researchers used it in published papers for years, because reviewers check the analysis, not the data underneath. In 2024, academics called for several of those papers to be retracted.

That is how a zombie statistic is made. Lynn and Becker becomes "a study". The study becomes "CEOWORLD". CEOWORLD becomes "Business Insider". Each step adds a more respectable name and no new evidence. Then it turns up in social media arguments as settled fact.

Before you share a ranking, ask three questions. Who collected the data? How many people were measured, and when? Does the number survive a basic sanity check?

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@BitcoinIntelX Bayern 3-1 Arsenal

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@TheBitcoinTime Bayern 3-2 Arsenal

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@GameAnalyst3 Bayern Munich 2-2 Arsenal
Aston Villa 4-1 Viking FK

[Roland K @EtorK3]

@seth_doe22 And to make matters worse Saglemi is being built in the middle of nowhere, which means future residents would have to pay more for transportation into the city 😭

[Roland K @EtorK3]

an inquiry into the approval process, we'd be shocked at the powerful people pushing such projects that ignore city planning wisdom. And in the end they'll be driving with dispatch riders avoiding the traffic caused by their poor decisions 😂 8/8

[Roland K @EtorK3]

Saw a post today from a lady regarding the Shiashie mosque and how it could affect traffic. But once I clicked on it, I noticed it had been deleted. It looks like most of us are afraid to criticize certain demographics but the truth must be told nonetheless... 1/n

[Roland K @EtorK3]

Conference center while situated on the same 2-lane highway. The discussion on national cathedral was mostly political, ignoring the CRP failure the site was. At the end of the day, we need to have serious conversations about city planning and new projects, and if there's 7/n