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Re: we've been over this before.
Sillylibs, you imply that since even more ''pure'' subtests of the WAIS-R show difference between races, there is a genetic difference between the two. Please correct me if I misread your statement, but this is not an assumption you can make from this evidence. The fact that non-White and non-East Asia race is also associated with lower ...
Posted to Human Nature by infinityplus on November 1, 2007
Re: Infinityplus
Yes, I would say this is a feasible idea, and I'm sure it occurs. There are theories that ADHD was actually adaptive not too long ago in our history, but in a day and age that increasingly values sedentary, persistent work over energy and attending to many items at once, it is increasingly becoming ill-adaptive. Saletan actually addressed the ...
Posted to Human Nature by infinityplus on November 1, 2007
Re: oh boy
I think a reading of Saletan's writing will show that he's not afraid to concede that group differences may exist, if that's what the science shows. However, he is still justifiably cautious in the extrapolations he makes from those differences. If there are differences, so be it, but let's be careful on how they're depicted and how they are ...
Posted to Human Nature by infinityplus on November 1, 2007