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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
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
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
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 ...
Posted to Human Nature 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 ...
Posted to Human Nature by mcdonald on November 26, 2007
Race and IQ
On the topic of race, and intelligence, and the difference between Asians and Whites, the differences are more complex than indicated in the article. The article indicated Asians consistently scored higher than whites on IQ tests. It's more complicated than that. Yes, Asians score slightly higher than whites, on average, but it depends on which ...
Posted to Human Nature by Tim Bitts on November 22, 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 by gzuckier on November 19, 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