its okay to argue against racial differences

but you have to actually argue

thousands of years of isolated evolution counts for nothing

Culture fell from the seven skies, Africans just had bad luck.

And americans?

Here's a thought:

And the beautiful genocide

what if you need to eclipse some IQ threshold in order to create a culture capable of increasing its own IQ?

It takes a certain level of social order to implement cultural practices that select for higher IQ.

Intelligence is required to establish social order

Intelligence and education

what kind of education?

intelligence will only be selected for when it is a trait that improves competitive efficacy in terms of reproduction

nerd vigrins BTFO

thus the hypothesis that certain geographies drive the development of a more intelligent population

again, other helpful mutations occur as well

and cultural has a role to play

but to deny the genetic component outright seems to me least likely to be correct

there is no reason to think that genes don't matter, except an ideological reason

often the "burden of proof" issue gets muddled in these conversations

Tell me, who is more intelligent, A black with a university carrer and with a rich life, or a poor white that lives in the street?

we are discussing population averages, not irrelevant individual cases

gotta be trolling

That isn't "Irrelevant individual cases"

it is

the variation within a group is larger than the variation between groups

that doesn't nullify the point

If you are from a rich family, you are going to get a better education

There are always statistical outliers

IQ is independant from education

education does not increase IQ

Picking a few of those does not disprove the general trend

thats kind of the point

no one at any point said the dumbest white person is smarter than the smartest black person

white and black populations in the US differ by about 1 SV over the aggregate

around 15 IQ points

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6JQAmm5cRAA/T6uinP4ZjWI/AAAAAAAAABk/m2EFUtV1LFk/s1600/iq5.jpg

Furthermore, a study in a South African university in which every participant was a student there, found that whites did better than blacks on the IQ test

All of them were having the same education

And, the Mississippi transracial adoption study showed that changing the environment did not change IQ.

beyond IQ, similar gaps appear in certain other genetically-originating qualities like personality traits