that was the point yeah

I agree with difference in cultures and ideas, not in races

but as you said, it's a linguistic issue

which is a fair point but I think that differentiation is more significant than what people think. Race is tied to culture pretty strongly, and it doesn't take long at all for a neurological state for a lineage to change based on external pressure.

after all, Ashkenazi IQ increased an average of 30 points in only several centuries

depends a lot, you can't tell how someone from a certain ethnic group was educated

and Ashkenazi iQ is in the double digits higher than other Jewish ethnic groups in Israel

almost all politicians in Israel are Ashkenazi, so I think denying race as insignificant is silly dum dum

and all that was based on averages on a selected group of people

it's not representative of every single person of the said group

correct, outliers is a beautiful thing, which makes it so Thomas Sowell can exist

but median is median

as I said, that median was calculated on a reduced number of the said group

medians can tells all and everything depending on why they were done 😉

Well ok I guess you can reduce this to "well I mean those sample sizes may not be 100% correct cause they didn't look at 100% of people".

but looking at a diverse selection of tens of thousands of participants is pretty strong

that's not really the question.

imo

why those number were calculated to begin with is the real question 😉

really ?

plus IQ doesn't determine one's intellect if you want to go that way

I hope you don't do this to every study you disagree with

it only really test the speed at which you solve "simple" problems

I don't, I tend to stay critical, even though I could agree with the study

Correct, studies also show basic behaviour is genetic as well though

basic personality types aren't learned mostly, but inherited. There was a landmark study done in America where they compared adopted children to their biological and adopted parents

99% or more showed stronger correlations with their actual parents based on intelligent and life experiences

very interesting

yes, it has to do with epigenetic for the most part

as, how one was educated

epigentics is externalities "activating" genes

so like, yeah, if you had the power o be super intelligent

but never went to school

you'd likely not have a great potentiality to unlock your potential

yup

but that intelligent gene is physiological, not learned

to stay simple, it's pretty much that yes

I doubt there's a gene for "intelligence" though, no matter what kind of test you agree with that determine the said intellect level

so if a majority of your character is determined by a preset trait sheet inherited by your parents, how doth "race" not come into this?

Also yeah you're correct

intelligence is a number of things