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  • Single parent evolution

    Evolution leads to strange relationships. If survival of babies conceived by abortion families is lower than those on the big family squalor side of the debate, then the genes of the latter will design the pool of heredity. In primitive societies where bonding with a mighty male made all the difference to the actual life or death survival of her ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by jwmdyck on March 22, 2008

  • Re: Race and IQ

    Transboy, I agree there will be Asian, world-class geniuses, in the future. Just not as many per capita, as Europe produces. I think a lot of the reason is biological, but not all. Part of it is definitely cultural. European culture, as Einstein once put it, ''is at the start, based on individualism''. Chinese culture is based on the group. I ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Tim Bitts on November 22, 2007

  • science moves on

    every science starts out with observations, followed by guesses, then if its got any worth at all it moves on to reducing everything to simple, predictable, verifiable nuts and bolts, Cartesian reductionism style. (compare physics, which has repeated the pattern several times, from Newton to subatomic physics, to string theory, vs. economics which ...
    Posted to XX Factor by gzuckier on November 14, 2007

  • IQ means something

    The socialist position is, ''No one has a firm idea on what 'intelligence' is other than it's what IQ tests measure.'' Does that mean IQ is a totally useless predictor of behavior? Consider the following: ''Travis Hirschi and Michael Hindelang . . . make a strong case for the argument that IQ is a better predictor of criminality than ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Epicurus on November 4, 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