Message from @Kalier
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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
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
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
i.e., blacks much less neurotic generally
Fewer black serial killers, more petty crime
Different music preferences
Why can't blacks and whites just be happy that Blacks can jump higher and run faster than us.
does that mean that blacks also tend to have lower conscientiousness?
Less autism among Africans
if they commit more petty crime?