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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 'racial' differences

    How can we have a difference by race in IQ if there is no biological foundation for the concept of race in humans? Thus, the critical question, how are people categorized for these studies? Is it self-identification? Is race assigned by the IQ testers? Official stats are not reliable - not when a person can be assigned one 'race' at birth and ...
    Posted to Human Nature by jillanita on November 18, 2007