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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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