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  • Re: Why the regret?

    Part of the problem is the unsoundness of making longtitudinal projections on horizontal or slice of life data. These measurements have indeed been made over the last hundred years or so, but the statistical populations themselves are still being sorted out by the anthropologists and archaeologists, and attempts to apply these measurements to what ...
    Posted to Human Nature by brerlou on November 29, 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

  • IQ is a Jewish Cultural Construct

    The problem with Saleton's paradigm is his acceptance of the IQ test as a measure, in fact, THE measure, of intelligence. His only evidence in favour of ''racial'' superiority is performance on IQ tests. However, the IQ test was invented by Jewish people. Thus to extrapolate from the higher level of success on their own test that they are ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Akbar2 on November 18, 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