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Re: Blacks are genetically superior in...
Your sports analogy completely blows up when you look at a sport that controls for both heredity and environment -- soccer. In that sport, the world's top athletes come from a wide variety of ethnic, socio-economic and geographic backgrounds. The world's current best player, Kaka, is an upper-middle class white Brazilian with obvious European ...
Posted to The Dilettante by jfurf on December 4, 2007
"the within-group heritability of IQ scores is irrelevant"
The APA report asks: ''Are the environmental and cultural situations of American Blacks and Whites also substantially and consistently different—different enough to make this a good analogy? If so, the within-group heritability of IQ scores is irrelevant to the issue.'' Is it? The debate seems to revolve around two issues: Is intelligence an ...
Posted to The Dilettante by Rand on December 4, 2007