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Re: Superiority of Asians? You gotta be kiddin' me
Exactly...Asians For a race with supposedly higher IQ's, apart from Japan, Asia has been consistently pwned by Europeans and whites for the past 500 years. Since the whatever dynasty, China hasn't been a shit country all around with a huge peasant class. Even after they got themselves off the opium, foreign powers still controlled them. But ...
Posted to Human Nature by shamwow on May 5, 2009
Idleness as a way of parenting.
I couldn't agree more. I run an award-winning web site for kids, Inkless Tales, at www.inklesstales.com - endorsed by the ALA, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and RIF - heavy hitters - and the site is all designed for learning - but the site is all rigorously tested first. By kids. For fun. My own kids? We have ''do-nothing'' days. Lots ...
Posted to Family by inklesstales on April 21, 2009
Yawn
Wow, yet another article questioning whether graduate degrees are worth it. Are you seriously trying to make this argument? I find this article to be seriously flawed, almost irresponsible. First of all, that is a huge generalization. There are definitely some graduate degrees, like masters in sociology, that will probably not ''pay off.'' ...
Posted to Family by stevenstevo on April 14, 2009
IQ, Race, Freedom & Oppression
Apparently Saletan wants to be an egalitarian in an age of genetic differences. He wants to be a truthful scientist in an age of dogmatic coercion. He wants self-respect and integrity, but he doesn’t want to suffer for living according to his values. Big dilemma. However, Saletan has managed to delicately sidestep the main issue, which is not ...
Posted to Human Nature by Pollynkorect on November 9, 2008
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
Re: "the within-group heritability of IQ scores is irrelevant"
The answer to the question whether the quality of the crops would revert to equal is yes. There is a ''natural experiment'' in the UK population which demonstrates this. Prior to the Second World War the disparities in quality of diet and of other living conditions between the working class population and the rest of society were very great. There ...
Posted to The Dilettante by kenc 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
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 by millipede on December 2, 2007
Re: The need for detail
He might have been a better writer to have replaced ''those Nigerian babies'' with ''these babies'' because after all 5% of the babies of European descent lack the gene(s) too. Thanks for reminding us of the context of Saletan’s quote. Of course there is a lot more to it than that. Firstly: It is not 5% of all babies of European descent ...
Posted to Human Nature by brerlou on November 30, 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, ...
Posted to Human Nature by gzuckier on November 29, 2007

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