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What's wrong with discussing IQ
The subject line can be read as a statement and as a question. What is wrong about most of the published discussions about IQ is that they jump to conclusions and policy implications without looking a crucial aspects of the research and models of intelligence. For a nice paragraph-length summary of the problem, see Stephen Pinker's new book ...
Posted to
Human Nature
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millipede
on
December 2, 2007
Re: Neither Race or IQ Scientifically Valid
BJ&TheBear: In walks the science: In one of the most extensive of these studies to date, considering 1,056 individuals from 52 human populations, with each individual genotyped for 377 autosomal microsatellite markers, we found that individuals could be partitioned into six main genetic clusters, five of which corresponded to Africa, ...
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gzuckier
on
November 29, 2007
Neither Race or IQ Scientifically Valid
Who said IQ was a true measure of intelligence anyway? It only measures a certain kind of mental ability. There is growing evidence that diet and environment can play a huge role in brain development. Also, differences in lifestyle can cause certain genetic traits to be expressed. Someone with poor nutrition, neglected and abused by parents, poor ...
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by
curiousgemini
on
November 28, 2007
Rational Racism
Perhaps Saletan is here founding a new movement (at least a new movement to give an old movement a respectable public face): Rational Racism. I suspect that what resonates as most existentially aggravating about thinking such as Saletan displays here, to those of us it rubs wrong, lies below the threshold of any reified logic: we intuit a ...
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by
mcdonald
on
November 26, 2007
If there are genetic differences, does it matter?
I would say that it does, because we do not know how these genes manifest themselves. I have read, for instance, that black children suffer more from sleep apnea, which affects IQ. If this is so, then a genetic predisposition to apnea would appear as a genetic predisposition to a lower IQ; however, apnea can be treated by to raise the effective ...
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SpookyCat
on
November 19, 2007
Show me the DNA
''The lowest black IQ averages in the U.S. show up in the South, where the rate of genetic blending is lowest'', as evidence of a genetic link. If there were NO actual genetic effect of race on IQ, and ALL the perceived effect was due to bias in development, wouldn't you still see exactly the same effect?
Posted to
Human Nature
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gzuckier
on
November 19, 2007
it's only a matter of time...
If specific genes exist in humans that affect intelligence and/or brain size they will be found very soon. I work in a lab at a major research university that is culling racial differences in the human genome and making transgenic ''africanized'' and ''europeanized'' mice based on these differences. If these mice have significant differences in ...
Posted to
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anorman
on
November 19, 2007
Re: James Watson is a coward….
ieee:Watson was initially right; when western countries play to the characteristics of Africans they can better help them to succeed in the world. If only such benevolent motives were unanimous.
Posted to
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haulinsacs
on
November 18, 2007
To whom it may concern:
From a washingtonpost.com article* (on a completely different subject, with no links to the study it refers to): ''A recent study by Scottish researchers asked whether the higher IQs seen in breast-fed children are the result of the breast milk they got or some other factor. By comparing the IQs of sibling pairs in which one was breast-fed and ...
Posted to
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haulinsacs
on
November 13, 2007
High Jewish IQs / Racist Dr. Watson
So, how might the idea of higher intelligence in the Jewish ethnic group relate to the controversy surrounding the recent comments of geneticist Dr. Watson? Are the ideas presented by Mr. Saletan really that different from the comments that got Dr. Watson run out of town?
Posted to
Human Nature
by
DrKruger
on
November 2, 2007
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