Als ich aufwuchs, war ich der gleichen Gehirnwäsche ausgesetzt wie alle in der westlichen Welt. Die Deutschen noch mehr, denn alles was nach Rassenunterschieden aussieht, wird demagogisch mit Hitler’s Völkermord gleichgesetzt. Die Rassen sind alle gleich. Wer sagt dass es Unterschiede zwischen den Rassen gibt, wird als “Rassist” und Verbrecher gebrandmarkt.
In Gymnasium und Universität hörte ich herablassende Bemerkungen über Forscher wie Arthur Jensen, die als unwissenschaftlich, unehrliche Wissenschafter bezeichnet wurden, die fehlerhafte Forschungsergebnisse über Rassenunterschiede erhielten.
Das Buch The Bell Curve von Richard Herrnstein und Charles Murray sah mir recht úberzeugend aus, aber sogar der amerikanische Präsident Bill Clinton verurteilte das Buch, ohne es gelesen zu haben. Also muss wohl etwas daran falsch sein.
Die Verteidiger der “Alle Rassen sind gleich” Theorie finden immer eine neue Ausrede um die Intelligenzquotient-Unterschiede zwischen den Rassen wegzuerklären:
- kulturelle Unterschiede
- Elterliche Erwartungen
- unterernährte Mütter
- Intelligenzmessungen sind kulturell ungerecht gewichtet
- Es gibt keine Rassen (solch ein Unsinn wird tatsächlich von ernstzunehmenden Forschern und Akademikern vertreten).
Rassenbedingte IQ Unterschiede adoptierter Kinder

Rushton: Intelligenzunterschiede von Kindern verschiedener Rassen die von weißen Mittelklassefamilien adoptiert wurden.
Meine Meinung schlug schließlich erst um, als ich Studien über Kinderadoptionen zwischen Rassen (Rassenübergreifende Adoptionsstudien) las. Das war der letzte Tropfen, der mich überzeugte, der mir klar machte dass all diese verzweifelten Versuche die Rassenunterschiede wegzuerklären, falsch sind.
- Der beste Beweis für die genetische Grundlage der Rassenunterschiede beim IQ stammt aus den rassenübergreifenden Adoptionsstudien unter ostasiatischen, schwarzen und gemischt-rassischen Kindern. Alle wurden in jungen Jahren von weißen Eltern adoptiert und wuchsen in Familien der „Mittelklasse“ auf.
- Schaubild 7 fasst die Resultate für ostasiatische Kinder, die in weiße Mittelklassefamilien adoptiert wurden, zusammen. Koreanische und vietnamesische Kinder aus armen Familien, viele von ihnen mangelernährt, wurden von weißen amerikanischen und belgischen Familien adoptiert. Als sie größer wurden, fielen sie in der Schule positiv auf. Die IQs der adoptierten asiatischen Kinder waren um zehn Punkte höher als der nationale Durchschnitt der Länder, in denen sie aufwuchsen. Rassenübergreifende Adoption erhöht also nicht den IQ und vermindert ihn auch nicht. Das dreigliedrige Muster der Rassenunterschiede im IQ bleibt bestehen.
Auf Deutsch: adoptierte Asiatenkinder wuchsen zu hochintelligenten Kindern heran, adoptierte schwarze Kinder waren unintelligent
Selbst auf diese Forschung gab es noch einen verzweifelten Erklärungsversuch. …………… T
- Einige Psychologen widersprachen Sandra Scarr. Sie behaupteten, die Folgen von Erwartungshaltungen (und nicht Gene) würden dieses Muster erklären. Sie sagten, schwarze und weiße Kinder würden nicht gleich behandelt. Selbst wenn die Eltern sich gut um die Kinder bemühten, würden Schwarze in den Schulen, von ihren Klassenkameraden und der Gesellschaft als Ganzes diskriminiert; das würde ihren IQ schmälern. Weil wir von schwarzen Kindern erwarteten, dass sie schlecht in der Schule abschnitten, würden sie unsere geringen Erwartungen erfüllen.
Selbst dieses Argument wurde prompt empirisch widerlegt. Rushton schreibt:
- A special analysis of the Scarr study compared parents who believed that they had adopted a Black baby but, really, had adopted a Mixed-Race (Black-White) child. The average IQ for these Mixed-Race children was just about the same as for other Mixed-Race children and above that for adopted Black children. This was true even though the parents who adopted these Mixed-Race children thought their babies really had two Black parents.
Alle Zitate und Abbildungen sind von der deutschen Version von RACE, EVOLUTION, and BEHAVIOR: A Life History Perspective, by J.P. Rushton
Das war das letzte Argument das mir fehlte. Es fegte die letzten Spuren meines anerzogenen Vorurteils weg. Den Glauben dass alle Rassen gleich sind. Es öffnete mich für die offene wissenschaftliche Analyse über Rassenunterschiede.
Zuerst will ich noch ein paar Punkte klar betonen
- Ich habe nichts gegen die schwarze Rasse. Ich bin nicht daran interessiert zu beweisen daß Schwarze minderwertig sind, intellektuell oder in anderer Weise (Kriminalstatistiken, zum Beispiel). Ich bin kein rassenfanatischer Nazi.
- Ich habe etwas gegen blinde Dogmatik und Dummheit. Ich habe etwas gegen die Untertrückung der katholischen Kirche der Wahrheit von Galileo Galilei, die die Wahrheit über die Bewegung der Erde unterdrückte. 1992 schnitt ich Zeitungsausschnitte aus daß die Kirche die Bücher von Galileo vom Index der verbotenen Bücher entfernte. Ein Dutzend Jahre nach der Mondlandung!
- Dieser Website ist über menschliche Dummheit, die oft selektive Dummheit über spezielle Themen. Über Wahrheit und Bewusstsein.
- Rushton, der oft sehr schlechtgeredet wird, ist nicht irgendein verrückter Forscher, sondern einer der besten empirischen Forscher der Welt. Rushton holds two doctorates from the University of London (Ph.D. and D.Sc) and is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations. He is also a member of the Behavior Genetics Association, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the Society for Neuroscience. Rushton has published six books and nearly 200 articles. In 1992 the Institute for Scientific Information ranked him the 22nd most published psychologist and the 11th most cited. Professor Rushton is listed in Who. Some of Rushtons scientific publications can be found on his University page: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushton_pubs.htm

Rushton: Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Unterschiede zwischen den Rassen
Zusamenfassung Rassenunterschiede (J.P. Rushton):
- Die Merkmale in Schaubild 1 formen ein Muster. Keine Erklärung, die sich ausschließlich auf Umwelteinflüsse stützt, kann all diese Merkmale plausibel machen. Es gibt jedoch eine genbasierte Deutungsmöglichkeit. Die Muster ergeben eine so genannte „Lebensgeschichte“. Sie helfen, den Herausforderungen des Lebens zu begegnen – Überleben, Wachstum und Reproduktion.
Dann natürlich werden die nicht-wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen sinnvoll. Unsere alltäglichen Beobachtunge, die wir normalerweise verdrängen, werden erklárt
- Die Weißen, die China erkundeten, waren genauso rassistisch wie diejenigen, die Afrika erforschten, doch ihre Beschreibungen unterschieden sich von dem, was die Araber über Afrika gesagt hatten. 1275 kam Marco Polo aus seiner Heimat Italien in China an, um den Handel mit dem mongolischen Herrscher zu eröffnen. Er sah, dass die Chinesen gut ausgebaute Straßen und Brücken hatten, Städte, die durch Kanäle verbunden waren, Steuereintreiber, Märkte, standardisierte Gewichte und Maße und nicht nur Münz-, sondern auch Papiergeld. Selbst ein Postzustellungssystem gab es. Alles, was er sah, brachte ihn trotz seines Stolzes auf seine italienische Herkunft und das alte Rom zu der Feststellung: „Sicher gibt es keine intelligentere Rasse auf der Erde als die Chinesen.”
Auf erstaunliche Weise schafft Rushton, ein koherentes Bild zu schaffen, das alle empirisch nachgewiesenen Rassenunterschiede zusammenfaßt und logisch erklärt. Einige dieser Unterschiede sind biologisch und chemisch und können nicht mit einfachem Psychologiegeschwätz und Soziologiefloskeln wegerklärt werden
In einigen Fällen fand man Rassenunterschiede in der Wirkung von Medikamente. Das erzeugt tiefe Probleme für die Dogmatiker der Rassengleichheit. Soll man die Unterschiede verbergen und Gesundheitsschäden für Schwarze riskieren, nur um diese Unterschiede zu verbergen. Oder soll man die wissenschaftlichen Tatsachen akzeptieren und Rassische Analyse der Medikamentenwirkung erlauben und so das Dogma der Rassengleichheit aushöhlen?
Rushton’s Buch faßt die Forschung sehr schön zusammen. Bitte entschuldigt wenn ich immer Rushton zitieren. Niemand kann es besser sagen, nieman kann das ganze Feld so überzeugend und kohärant zusammenfassen
- Viele Statistiken im Schaubild 1 stammen aus den USA, wo Ostasiaten als „Minderheitenvorbild“ gelten. Sie haben weniger Scheidungen, weniger außereheliche Geburten und weniger angezeigte Fälle von Kindesmissbrauch als Weiße. Auch gehen mehr Ostasiaten mit Abschluss von der Hochschule ab und weniger ins Gefängnis.
- Auf der anderen Seite machen Schwarze nur 12 % der amerikanischen Bevölkerung aus, stellen jedoch 50 % der Gefängnisinsassen. In den USA ist einer von drei Schwarzen entweder im Knast, auf Bewährung oder in Erwartung seiner Verhandlung. Das sind wesentlich mehr als diejenigen, die die Uni beenden. Kapitel II zeigt, wie das Rassenmuster bezüglich Verbrechen sich weltweit bestätigt. Interpol-Jahrbücher beweisen, dass die Rate für Schwerverbrechen (Mord, Vergewaltigung, schwere Körperverletzung) in Asien und den pazifischen Randgebieten viermal so niedrig ist wie in afrikanischen und karibischen Ländern. Weiße in den USA und Europa stehen dazwischen. Die Daten von 1996 zeigen: In Asien gibt es 35 Gewaltverbrechen auf 100.000 Einwohner, in Europa 42 und in Afrika 149.
- Kapitel II verdeutlicht auch, dass Ostasiaten langsamer reif werden als Weiße, und Schwarze am schnellsten. Dies gilt für die Knochen- und Zahnentwicklung und jenes Alter, in dem ein Kind zum ersten Mal sitzt, krabbelt, geht und sich Kleidung anzieht. Ostasiatische Kinder beginnen erst mit ca. 13 Monaten zu laufen, weiße Kinder mit zwölf Monaten, schwarze Kinder mit elf Monaten.
- Kapitel III blickt auf die Rassenunterschiede im sexuellen Verhalten. Ostasiaten sind am wenigsten aktiv, ob nun im Hinblick auf das Alter des ersten Geschlechtsverkehrs, die Häufigkeit des Geschlechtsverkehrs oder die Anzahl der sexuellen Partner. Schwarze sind hier am agilsten. Diese Kontraste führen zu unterschiedlichen Häufigkeiten von Krankheiten wie Syphilis, Gonorrhö, Herpes und Chlamydien. In Afrika, unter Schwarzen in den USA und in der Karibik ist die HIVRate hoch, in China und Japan niedrig. Europa befindet sich wieder in der Mitte.
- Die Rassen unterscheiden sich bei den Eisprüngen (Kapitel III). Nicht alle Frauen produzieren während ihres Menstruationszyklus Eier. Wenn zwei oder mehr Eier zur gleichen Zeit produziert werden, ist eine Schwangerschaft wahrscheinlicher, ebenso das Zeugen zweieiiger Zwillinge. Die Anzahl von Zwillingsgeburten beträgt 16 von Tausend bei Schwarzen, acht von Tausend bei Weißen und vier von Tausend oder weniger bei Ostasiaten. Drillinge, Vierlinge usw. sind am seltensten unter Ostasiaten anzutreffen, am häufigsten unter Schwarzen.
- Kapitel IV handelt von Rasse und Intelligenz. Hunderte von Studien mit Millionen von Menschen beweisen ein dreigliedriges Muster. IQ-Tests sind oft so ausgelegt, dass ein durchschnittliches Ergebnis den Wert 100 erbringt und die „normale“ Bandbreite von 85 bis 115 reicht. Weiße liegen durchschnittlich zwischen 100 und 103. Ostasiaten in Asien und in den USA liegen bei etwa 106, obwohl die Tests auf die euroamerikanische Kultur zugeschnitten wurden. Schwarze in den USA, der Karibik, Großbritannien, Kanada und Afrika liegen bei etwa 85. Die niedrigsten IQs wurden in Schwarzafrika (südlich der Sahara) gefunden: 70– 75. Kapitel IV handelt auch von der Hirngröße. Größere Hirne haben mehr Zellen, was zu höheren IQs führt.
- Die Rassen unterscheiden sich in Hirngröße. Das Collaborative Perinatal Project begleitete mehr als 35.000 Kinder von der Geburt bis zum Alter von sieben Jahren. Ostasiaten hatten größere Hirne als Weiße: bei der Geburt, mit vier Monaten, einem Jahr und sieben Jahren. Weiße hatten zu jeder Zeit größere Hirne als Schwarze (siehe Schaubild 2). Die Daten für das Schaubild 2 stammen von 6.325 Angestellten der USArmee.
Kapitel V fragt, ob Unterschiede in unseren Hirngrößen, unseren Körpern und unserem Verhalten auf Gene, die Umwelt oder beides zurückzuführen sind. Es fragt auch, ob individuelle Unterschiede uns irgendetwas über Rassenunterschiede sagen können. Warum liegen Weiße in so vielen Rubriken zwischen Asiaten und Schwarzen? Warum haben die Gruppen mit größeren Hirnen weniger Zwillinge? Um die Antwort zu finden, muss man sich all die Daten in Schaubild 1 ansehen.
- Die Merkmale in Schaubild 1 formen ein Muster. Keine Erklärung, die sich ausschließlich auf Umwelteinflüsse stützt, kann all diese Merkmale plausibel machen. Es gibt jedoch eine genbasierte Deutungsmöglichkeit. Die Muster ergeben eine so genannte „Lebensgeschichte“. Sie helfen, den Herausforderungen des Lebens zu begegnen – Überleben, Wachstum und Reproduktion.
- Kapitel VI behandelt die genbasierte „Lebensgeschichte- Theorie“, die ich als Erklärung für das Rassenmuster in Hirngröße, Intelligenz und in anderen Bereichen vorgeschlagen habe. Evolutionsbiologen nennen dies die r-K Skala reproduktiver Strategien. Am einen Ende der Skala sind r-Strategien, die auf hohen Zeugungsraten beruhen. Am anderen Ende befinden sich K-Strategien, die vom hohen Niveau elterlicher Zuwendung abhängen. Diese Skala wird normalerweise benutzt, um die Lebensgeschichten verschiedener Tierarten zu vergleichen. Ich habe sie verwendet, um die kleineren, aber vorhandenen Unterschiede zwischen den menschlichen Rassen zu deuten. Auf dieser Skala sind Ostasiaten mehr K-selektiert als Weiße, Weiße mehr K-selektiert als Schwarze. Kselektierte Frauen produzieren weniger Eier (und haben größere Hirne) als r-selektierte Frauen. K-selektierte Männer verbringen mehr Zeit mit ihren Kindern als auf der Suche nach sexuellem Vergnügen. Kapitel VII zeigt, dass die Rassendifferenzen bei reproduktiven Strategien vor dem Hintergrund der menschlichen Evolution Sinn machen. Moderne Menschen tauchten vor 200.000 Jahren in Afrika auf. Afrikaner und Nicht-Afrikaner teilten sich vor etwa 100.000 Jahren auf. Ostasiaten und Weiße trennten sich vor ca. 40.000 Jahren.
- Je nördlicher die Menschen aus Afrika hinauswanderten, desto schwerer wurde es, Nahrung zu finden, eine Bleibe zu schaffen, Kleidung herzustellen und Kinder groß zu ziehen. Die Gruppen, die sich zu den heutigen Weißen und Ostasiaten entwickelten, benötigten größere Hirne, mehr Familienstabilität und ein längeres Leben. Doch ein größeres Hirn aufzubauen verschlingt viel Zeit und Energie im Leben eines einzelnen. Dieser Wandel wurde ausgeglichen durch langsameres Wachstum, niedrigere Spiegel von Sexualhormonen, weniger Aggression und weniger sexuelle Aktivität. Warum? Weil Afrika, Europa und Asien sehr unterschiedliche Klimata haben und Geographien, die nach verschiedenartigen Fähigkeiten und Lebensstilen und anderem Ressourcengebrauch verlangen. Schwarze entwickelten sich in einem tropischen Klima, das dem kühleren in Europa entgegenstand, in dem Weiße lebten, und dem noch kälteren arktischen, dem Ostasiaten entstammen.
- Weil Intelligenz die Überlebenschancen im rauen Winterklima erhöhte, mussten die Gruppen, die Afrika verließen, größere Intelligenz und Familienstabilität entwickeln. Dies erforderte größere Hirne, langsamere Entwicklung, geringere Hormonspiegel, weniger Potenz, weniger Aggression und weniger Impulsivität. Vorausplanung, Selbstkontrolle, Regeltreue und Langlebigkeit wuchsen unter Nicht-Afrikanern. Ich verstehe, dass diese Themen kontrovers diskutiert werden und der Leser viele Fragen stellen möchte. Kapitel VIII führt daher die Fragen auf, die mir am häufigsten zu diesem Buch gestellt wurden – und meine Antworten.
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Schlussfolgerung
- Rasse geht unter die Haut. Das Muster asiatischweiß- schwarzer Unterschiede findet sich durch die Geschichte hindurch, über geographische Grenzen und politisch-ökonomische Systeme hinweg. Es beweist die biologische Realität von Rasse. Theorien, die sich nur auf Kultur berufen, können die Daten in Schaubild 1 nicht erklären. Die folgenden drei Kapitel beschreiben die wissenschaftlichen Befunde bezüglich Rassenunterschieden im Detail. Weitere Kapitel erklären, warum diese Unterschiede einem Muster folgen.
Alle Zitate und Abbildungen sind von der deutschen Version von RACE, EVOLUTION, and BEHAVIOR: A Life History Perspective, by J.P. Rushton
Hier können Sie die gekürzte Ausgabe von Rushton’s Buch in verschiedenen Sprachen (auch Deutsch) herunterladen: RACE, EVOLUTION, and BEHAVIOR: A Life History Perspective, by J.P. Rushton
Wenn sie wirklich wissenschaftlich Beweise sehen wollen, sollten Sie die englische Vollversion von Rushton’s Buch lesen. Leider konnte ich sie bei Amazon nicht finden.

#1 von Hudson Firesys am 00:21 - 00:21
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This point of saying that race does not exist is something stupid and baseless, it’s just a social thing, an attempt to erase the face of miscegenation in America(Continent) countries.
Race is something possible to distinguish by the most ignorant person when it comes to science,all animals have a racial differentiation, it is stupid to say that the human is not the case, is something desperate.Most likely to say is that the human admixed (or multi-racial) is not a specific breed, a code of racial identity.
Race influences but the issue of intelligence, the history of mankind can already test it very well,the evolution of civilizations and other factors prove that there is a”maximum”intelligence that only a few humans can achieve.Race is not just skin deep, is the union of several physical features among others acquired through a process of evolution or adaptation.
#2 von Gary am 10:31 - 10:31
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People talk about averages all the time. Lets look at nobel prize winners. China, with 1 billion people, has won only 5, Japan with 160 million, only 17. Israel with 5 million people, 8 winners.
Germany over 160, United States, over 300.
So those people who have received acknowledgement of their work as being an advancement to mankind, are overwhelmingly non asian. If asians have higher IQs, why were their societies so backward? The japanses may invent play stations, but it was the west who invented quantum mechanics, electronics etc that was the basis for it all.
#3 von SkiFi am 06:28 - 06:28
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You see the main factor that boosted Europeans to research so fast was constant warfare as of the asians they were more calm the wars were more like for honour not just slavery and slaughter like in Europe. We had lack of space as Europeans were numerous in numbers and nations and language differences were great. We needed to conquer we needed to be better Europeans studied enemeies and adopted that is why we evolved into what we are now. Intellignece is nothing it is a limit in certain areas but fantasy the will for change under pressure.. critical situation this is what made us superior to any other race in the world. Dark ages made us strong. I even think the average IQ in EU is much higher than elswhere in the world. But IQ does not consist purely of one element a regular IQ test can find a stupid person very well but to see a difference for ppl above 115 IQ you need more than IQ test while a person capable of score 145 can end up with 125 while his thinking and way of seing thing is more abstract perhaps he has more points of view and also work under pressure while doing IQ test can lower his result. I know ppl which are supersmart but when it comes to IQ test they fail .. it has more to do with emotions. But what I was searching for nowadays is more a question if the average intelligence started to decreaase while people are not so openminded anymore, the fall simply under controll and modern slavery, humans are freelingly giving up freedom in exchange for money/debt I think that the humans 100years before us were more intelligent than we are now ..
#4 von Gray-Color am 13:51 - 13:51
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If it is true that Races do not exist and all are equal, then why we need to categorize some people as Black, some people as White, some people as Latino and some people as Asian?
If it is true that All are equal, then why the government policy must treat different groups of people in different ways?(Oop, “different” groups of people? Again? Tere is no “different” groups, damned it! They are all of the same! — Execuse me, sir, do you mean that all Americans are of the same color? Do you believe that yourself?)
The fact that we must enforce policy like Affirmative Action to provide privileged favors to specific group(s) at the cost of sacrificing the equal opportunities of the other specific group(s) of the country has underlined the irrefutable truth that not only the Races exist, but also there are differences between different races.
Lying is a crime, and should be condemned, while telling the truth isn’t. Telling the truth should never be threatened/punished/purged regardless how difficult it is to face the unpleasant truth.
And the only way to tell between lying and telling truth is to face nothing but objective evidences, data, trained observation & research. Let the evidences tell the story, stop the powerful & shameless politicians from name calling, label attaching and coercing citizens to not discuss issues related to their daily lives. There should not be any compromise in the basic principles of our Constitution, that is, the freedom of speech.
Only if human being has the courage to face the ugly truth then it is possible to figure out the feasible solutions to handle the problems existing between the races.
The paradox is originated from the fact that we are human being. And here is an epitome of all the Paradox shared by human being: Having the courage to wench brothel to risk the danger of HIV disease but having no courage to recognize HIV infected as to take the HIV treatment.
But everybody should keep this firmly in mind: HIV won’t go away just because you refuse to recognize its existance.
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#6 von soren am 11:34 - 11:34
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“Unfortunately, there are no other “races” but the human race. Genetics has already proved that; take for instance the link below”
Um no… there are races as long as there are observable differences in separated genetic populations. Comparing the “genetic diversity” within and between populations is an apple and oranges comparison.
“Even accepting things that are controversial to accept -whether IQ differences are statistically significant, whether IQ is an appropriate measure of human intelligence – what the study may be showing is differences based on adaptation to different conditions.”
Um, duh…
#7 von martin_uk am 12:39 - 12:39
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What’s with this codswallop about Ngerians doing really well in Western countries. Their take up of welfare benefits is legendary in the UK. Something like one in three families from Nigeria receive housing benefit, compared to 1 in thirty immigrant families from Eastern Europe. The notion that all the Races are the same is so obviously false that only whites are stupid enough to believe it. Thank God power and influence is moving to China.
#8 von Mtukwao Muungwana am 03:03 - 03:03
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I am Black, in Sub-Saharan Africa. I concur with these theories on intelligency based on race. The environment has historically provided challenges to those in it, and therefore shaped coping mechanisms which have been incorporated into their genes through evolution.
That said, it does not make me less human, just a human with less capabilities in some areas and more in others. Sex tourism and some sports is a testimony to a fact that all races have something to contribute to other’s well being!
If that is not enough, then you have to devise some genetic engineering to speed up the evolution of blacks. Instead of hundreds of thousands of years it has taken the whites to develop superior IQs, the times will minimal!
#9 von admin am 04:40 - 04:40
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People with the least self control, lowest IQ, highest criminality have by far the most children. We strongly select for lower IQ people, independent of race. Even within the white or black races. We breed future generations with lower IQ and higher criminality. It is sad. So even without genetic manipulation, with simple breeding, we do the opposite of what you suggest.
True genetic engineering is highly contested and quite taboo. But even positive selection is taboo, like using sperm of Nobel Prize winners.
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#11 von Tr.Qacy am 01:06 - 01:06
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How does black slavery in the western world explain that the world’s lowest I.Q.’s are in Africa?
Africa is the cradle of civilization and yet its peoples have I.Q.’s consistently below 80.
African-American’s scores are higher because they have genetically mixed with other races.
This has nothing to do with poverty, education, racism, and slavery in the United States.
If it did, the intelligence of native Africans would be more in line with Europeans and Asians.
#12 von La Heretique am 17:38 - 17:38
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I also flipped POV on race and IQ, in about 2003, after actually bothering to check the data instead of just watching the TV documentaries pumped out for the masses. Even more of a surprise was finding out that race/IQ differences being at least partly genetic was the most common POV among psych phds (only 15% support the environmental cause kiddies).
Also amazes me how few people actually know that a small majority of bio/forensic anthropologists support race as a concept, as do a mass of geneticists and biologists. Nice to see Martin_uk is busy reproducing the left wing media approved line and not bothering to look up the poll that was taken on this subject among scientists. He should also ask psych phds whether IQ is a good measure of IQ and if it is biased, Being familiar with the body of the reasearch and the studies, I can tell him he’s not going to be a happy man. The ONLY argument is ‘why are the IQ’s different?’ Qualified professionals know the tests work. Somehow nice middle class liberals like Martin always decide they know better that the people who’ve spent decades studying the subject.
Martin, FYI, modern human populations started to go there seperate ways about 130k ago, and you’d have to assume there’s been zero evolution regarding the human brain in that time for ‘no IQ differences’ to be true. As it is we know of at least two relatively recent mutations not seen in Africans but found in Eurasians. Relative brain size also varies, and exactly the way you’d expect ot to if brain mass was related to the IQ scores.
Always, people who obviously have zero familiarity with the hard science feel they know best, particulary if they once watched a PBS documentary.
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I went to a relatively small university with a relatively prestigious graduate program. This was in the US. This school, for some reason, received a relatively high number of African students that come to study in the US via a few very prestigious and competitive fellowship programs (that I’m sure most people have heard of but I won’t mention). So these should have been the cream of the crop so to speak. I am not racist and was friends with many of these students. Having class with them though, it was obvious that they were significantly less bright than the average white or asian student. They struggled much more with things relatively free of cultural bias, like conceptual problems linking flows of cause-effect via diagrams etc. This is quite anecdotal, but matches the research presented here.
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Some “parts of the world” are not innately intelligent enough to invent and manufacture anything that might produce pollution.
#17 von Alexander T. am 20:23 - 20:23
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#18 von admin am 23:24 - 23:24
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@Alexander T.: They raised black African and Asian orphan babies in white middle class families. Asian babies grew up to have an IQ of 112, Blacks of 93, as this article’s graphic shows. This was exactly the experiment you suggested, and that was what finally made me a racist, according to your terminology. Some people call it “race realism”. But you are right, conventional dogma and political correctness would call unbiased scientists “racists” if their peer reviewed academic research finds such politically incorrect results. Please read more at Race and IQ 1 and Race and IQ 2
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#20 von admin am 23:46 - 23:46
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@Alexander T. How do you know I am white? I say Asians are the most intelligent. Maybe I am Asian? or I just state scientific facts, irrespective of personal “selfish” racial interest.
Maybe you personally have a very high IQ, irrespective of race. Or you might be mixed race, which interestingly still is called “black” even if the percentage of black genes is very low.
Did you read the over 100 other comments by clicking on “Previous” below? The discussion is very interesting!
Certainly, religion and “black culture” can negatively influence intellectual and economic success of blacks. But everything points towards a major in-born genetic IQ gap. So far, all expensive attempts to close the gap with educational measures have failed.
#21 von J.M. am 15:27 - 15:27
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It`s pointless admin, Alexander doesn`t want to accept the fact that all people are not born equal, moreover he thinks that because he is atheist it automatically turns him into an intelligent person. WHatever you think about religion, the CHRISTIAN WEST was responsible for most of the scientific breaktthroughs that were necessary for our modern world (christian doesn`t mean the imbeciles your american audiences hold up as pastors.)
#22 von Tr.Qacy am 01:16 - 01:16
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It’s not religion nor is it culture–it is brain size.
Brain size is measurable.
It is quantifiable.
#23 von rhayat10 am 12:16 - 12:16
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Some have mentioned Joseph Graves. Here is a comprehensive critique/review of his book, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”:
http://jewamongyou.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-emperors-new-clothes-book-reviewcritique/
#24 von Henry am 02:25 - 02:25
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#25 von admin am 03:11 - 03:11
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You confuse inconvenient facts with intent. These researchers are looking for the truth. They don’t have that intent. They try to find the truth.
you have an intent. To show all races are equal. The facts and truth be damned.
Same as above. you have an intent. To show all races are equal. The facts and truth be damned. We (me and the researchers) just have the intent to prevent YOU from distorting facts, and research, because of your preconceived politically correct dogma. We would be very happy if someone found a recipe to make all US and African blacks affluent law abiding successful citizens, better then any Asian in the US or China. Just that 50 years of affirmative action and help for Africa has not equaled US blacks to US Asians and has not produced any Korea or Taiwan in Africa.
#26 von soren am 11:53 - 11:53
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“First and foremost, there is only one race and it is the human race. If we weren’t of the same race, we couldn’t copulate among the different color groups. ”
You are an f’n idiot. There are races as long as there are observable differences in separated genetic populations. Comparing the “genetic diversity” within and between populations is an apple and oranges comparison.
Do you believe in dog breeds?
chiwawa pitbull mix
#27 von Tr.Qacy am 04:46 - 04:46
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Your incorrect usage of the English language, vocabulary, and its parts of speech say more about you, the writer, than perhaps you intend.
Your lack of intelligence is showing.
#28 von Tr.Qacy am 04:50 - 04:50
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#27 comment is in reply to Henry’s #24 comment.
#29 von free markets will regulate everything am 16:30 - 16:30
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With all the effort spent on proving to each other that it`s your opponent who`s dogmatic, you, gents, tend to let some basic logical fallacies in the very article slip past you.
Put aside the IQ test being a paradigmally constructed quasi-scientific measurement, the author claims that the concept of it being created through expectancy effects can be disproved by stating that parents behaved as if their children were black, when, in fact, they were of mixed race, while the critical argument mentions the perceptions of “the school, classmates and society as a whole”. In the situation with the black-white mixed-race children the distinction between the “pure black” and “mixed-race” children is highly visible (the skin pigmentation differs). Now I`m going to make an assumption here that the white middle-class parents didn`t care specifically to go everhywhere after their black adopted child and explain to everyone in detail the racial identity of both of the kid`s parents. This brings us to a conclusion that no matter what the parents thought, the societal perceptions of “black” and “mixed-race” children, based on different visual perceptions, might have differed, just as it states in the text of the criticical remark Rushton is so quick to disclaim.
I do not try to apologetically defend the presented point of view – I am just stating that this particular attempt of disproving is based on a logically inconsistent explanation.
#30 von Anon am 12:49 - 12:49
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I don’t care if there is a difference in IQ between large populations on average. People should be evaluated individually. There are very smart and very stupid people of all backgrounds. I evaluate people on a person to person basis; a meritocracy.
#31 von soren am 11:59 - 11:59
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Good, which is why we should get rid of affirmative action…
#32 von Amelia am 23:09 - 23:09
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#33 von admin am 05:20 - 05:20
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We do research. Some people just want to know things. Find out laws of nature. Some people would like to help innner cities. Or Africa. And for that we have to understand the reasons why these places are poor and criminal.
Most scientists believe that we can solve problems only if we truly understand them. So they want to know the truth in order to then find the best solutions.
There are lots of links to studies, and inside the studies to other studies. If you are really interested, a true scientist, then verify all studies. Most are peer reviewed studies by real University professors according to recognized research methods.
And yes, there still are individuals.
#34 von Tr.Qacy am 04:57 - 04:57
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Amelia–many people are studying sociology, not looking for makeup tips.
There are people searching the internet for different scientific studies related to their graduate degree, for instance.
Just because you stumbled upon social scientists discussing their studies while you were looking up information for what products to paint on your face, doesn’t mean that you have any idea what is being discussed here.
#35 von jixiang am 23:47 - 23:47
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The fact that medieval China had a well developed infratructure which impressed Marco Polo, while Africa didn’t, does not prove that the Chinese are more intelligent. In his famous book “Guns, germs and stell”, Jared Diamond explains the difference in technology and economic development between different parts of the world as deriving from geographic factors, and not from racial differences.
By the way, you suggest that Vietnamese, being Asians, are very intelligent, but if you go to Vietnam, the country is extremely poor and underdeveloped, as was China a few decades ago. How does this fit in with your views?
#36 von admin am 05:12 - 05:12
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Vietnam had an enormous war and a communist regime that held back China and Russia in spite of highly inteligent and educated people. Compare this with African war zones, they are doing pretty well. Compare it with Haiti even before the earthquake.
IQ is not all. IQ works together with the environment. From what I understand, Vietnamese immigrants in the US are extremely successful, especially second and third generations. Good IQ with good environment, and still preserving good cultural values from their old cult
Then compare the looting and unrest in the earthquake in Haiti and after flooding in New Orleans (mainly black) with the calm in Japan and other Asian Tsunami victim countries like Indonesia etc.
#37 von jixiang am 00:07 - 00:07
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You seem to me to be sliding more and more into attitudes against blacks which are frankly unacceptable. Even if their average IQ was slightly lower, how does this automatically translate into looting following an earthquake? These are clearly cultural differences, not differences in IQ. Even if there was a slight difference in average intelligence, always expecting the worst from black people in every situation is not right.
My point about Vietnam was trying to show that a country’s level of economic development and its people’s intelligence don’t necessarily correlate, especially since different countries compare differently to each other in different periods of history. China was poorer than Europe for a couple of centuries before “communism”, while it was much richer than Europe during the Middle Ages, even though the people involved still have the same genes.
#38 von jixiang am 00:17 - 00:17
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And another thing: I think there is a good argument for not doing research on which races are more intelligent, because the results will automatically lead to racism and make it harder for people to be evaluated as individuals.
If black people really do have lower IQ, it is better not to know that.
#39 von admin am 21:20 - 21:20
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@Jixiang: opting to close one’s eyes and intentionally avoid knowing the truth is an interesting option. Good you honestly state such intent.
Of course, this creates serious problems. Blacks get angry because they believe their lack of academic success is due to discrimination by the evil white man. While it is solely due to the lower IQ.
While white IQ is slightly lower then Asian IQ, black IQ is very significantly lower, about 1-2 Standard Deviations.
#40 von jixiang am 00:44 - 00:44
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Yes, and this sort of reacial theorizing is exactly what the white minority in South Africa would seaze on to justify apartheid. After all, you wouldn’t want to live in a country with a govenrment elected mainly by blacks with a “lower IQ”, would you?
If you took the thing to extremes , you could justifiy taking black people’s vote away in Western countries too. After all, they aren’t intelligent enough to know what’s good for them are they?
Is it surprising that people get nervous about this sort of stuff? After all, it was only recently that blacks were genuinely denied rights because they were seen as inferior, and even enslaved. Seeing them as equals has been a great step forward for civilization.
And as for being committed to the scientific truth, differences in racial intelligence are not exactly like quantum mechanics or something. We don’t need to know about it to have a better fundamental understanding of how the world works, and I posit that we had better continue not researching the subject.
By the way, IQ is not at all universally accepted as an objective way to assess intelligence, so here’s another problem with your “scientific evidence” of differences in racial intelligence.
#41 von Human-Stupidity.com am 07:06 - 07:06
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@jixiang: I would not even dare to say that myself, but I am slowly arriving at the same conclusions.
Yes, and this sort of reacial theorizing is exactly what the white minority in South Africa would seaze on to justify apartheid. After all, you wouldn’t want to live in a country with a govenrment elected mainly by blacks with a “lower IQ”, would you?
I believe crime is increasing in South Africa.
Of course it is Apartheid’s fault http://allafrica.com/stories/201011251229.html
http://www.economist.com/node/14564621
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0824/p09s01-coop.html
#42 von jixiang am 21:44 - 21:44
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Here we go. You see why people object to this sort of theorizing? The next step is always the support of discrimination. By the way crime hasn’t increased in South Africa, it’s just that during apartheid the whites were shielded from it. The townships were always very violent. In any case if the whites don’t like living in a country run by the black majority, then they can leave. Or do people with a “lower IQ” not have a right to their own land either?
#43 von vee am 09:07 - 09:07
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Because of a different culture idiot
#44 von Tr.Qacy am 05:03 - 05:03
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jixiang,
There is no truth that should not be known.
To avoid knowledge just because it may be politically incorrect would undermine all advanced society.
Suppose scientists had decided not to tell people that their dirty hands were the cause of infection because it might reflect poorly on their hygiene.
#45 von jixiang am 03:13 - 03:13
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I would like to direct you all to this site, which is dedicated entirely to refuting the kind of arguments found here about black people, and has lots of scientific information on the matter:
http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrcontents.htm
#46 von vee am 09:04 - 09:04
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First of all you cannot measure intelligent cross culturally. Blacks and whites have a different culture. So emphasize is placed on DIFFERENT areas of life. I’m sure if you take a bunch of high IO white people drop them off in the middle of Africa they would die, they would fail the IQ test of life. Why is it right that your IQ test is based on Physic or Math? When Blacks do not place and emphasis on those things? And then you test them based on what YOU quality as intelligent and they fail, than you say “see!! They are less intelligent then us!” And you can’t test a small group of Black in the U.S.A and say they stand for ALL Black people, especially since the Black people in the United States are only 11% of the U.S population. 7 billion Black people in the world, 8 million in the United States. A hand full of Black people in the United States do not stand for the whole Black race! Especially when the Black population in the United States are disproportionally: Poor, subject to discrimination, subject to poor education, battling drug abuse at home, crime in the neighborhood ,poor diet ect. Ect. Ect. And the when you go outside of the United States to AFRICA these people are more concerned with life skills, then book skills. So how can you give them a test base on things they do not study? How can you compare them to a totally different culture? That’s like me being a dancer saying that I think it’s smart if you can dance will, then I give a person an IQ test based on dance who has never danced or only dances as a hobby. YOU fail! you so stupid. Yet all along this person thought it was smart if they learned how to live off the land in harmony with the earth.
#47 von Tr.Qacy am 05:16 - 05:16
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You should consider doing some research on I.Q. tests. They are not about math and physics.
Enviroment is responsible partially for intelligence, but genetics are responsible for much more.
This has been established with studies on children adopted at birth by families of different races and socio-economic status.
Black children adopted by white or Asian middle or higher income families had higher I.Q.’s than children raised by their black families or economically disadvantaged families–but only by a few points. Their scores were still markedly lower than caucasian or asian children.
Asian children adopted by white families still had higher I.Q.’s than white children.
Genetics still has more to do with intelligence than any other single factor.
#48 von chenking am 03:11 - 03:11
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since we know the black mind is inferior the question is how to make the black mind overcome this inferiority
#49 von admin am 06:05 - 06:05
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Calling the black mind “inferior” is more anti-PC then I dare to do. But denial of the lower IQ, lower impulse control causes anger and rage in Blacks. Blacks and politically correct Whites perceive Black lower status, lower income, higher prison rate as unjust discrimination, not as result of innate differences. Because the differences are attributed to the evil white man, his constant discrimination and repression, and to the long lasting effects of slavery centuries ago. In general, it is difficult to solve a problem based on totally false premises and theories. Nobel prize winner Watson was maligned for saying this about Africa. So once you see the facts of IQ differences, you then can start looking for solutions.
The IQ differences can not be solved in any quick and sensible ways. So one needs to look how to productively engage lower IQ people. Giving higher value and salaries to honest manual labor comes to my mind. There might be an injustice why high IQ office work is valued so much higher then street cleaning, brick laying, or plumbing. Both financially and status-wise.
Other conclusions are so un-PC that I don’t even dare to vent them there. Look for HBD, Human Bio-Diversity movement for more ideas.
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White trash are in direct competition with Blacks for jobs and cheap housing. They feel the injustice of affirmative action and of tolerance for Black racist violence first hand, starting in school. And these simple people gravitate towards simple ideologies like storm front.
Race distribution at your college confirms that Asians are totally over-represented. The number of Blacks is surprising, I have an inkling that affirmative action and quotas are involved. Also, Georgia probably has a high percentage of Blacks.
I know there seems to be only one woman who has created a Fortune 500 company. How many Blacks?
The differences in IQ, impulsiveness etc show 3-fold: the average Black is like an low IQ white. There are no Blacks with Nobel Prize winning IQ in hard sciences. And there are more Blacks in the lowest rungs, equal and below low IQ high violence “white trash”
I agree with your facts, but not with your conclusions.
False theories about Black IQ cause black anger (they think their low worldly success is the fault of evil whites), and causes false policy (which should be informed by scientific TRUTH and not by false myths of equality).
#52 von Featherless Biped am 20:19 - 20:19
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FWIW, I have the same sexual orientation as my adopted mother (lesbian) as opposed to my biological mother (heterosexual.) While there surely are genetic aspects to IQ, sexual orientation, personality, etc., you can’t discount the effects of parenting, either.
To put it another way, nobody thinks a white baby adopted by a ghetto single mother would sail easily through life based on having good genes.
#53 von Tr.Qacy am 05:24 - 05:24
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Actually, your conclusions are incorrect. Children adopted into BETTER circumstances DO have increased I.Q.’s, but not by more than a couple of points.
Adopted children score close to their racial mean.
Even if you change their enviroment, you can only change their I.Q. by at most 6 points.
#54 von admin am 09:28 - 09:28
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Motives, part 3: "the new racism": a great article debunking race deniers. Too sad that the current academic climate supports “scientists” who distort facts and provide absurd explanations to avoid facing the truth.
The following article gives more details about the trans-racial adoption study and its follow-up study
Research That Was to Prove Jensen Wrong Proves Him Right
#55 von Larry Bond am 22:52 - 22:52
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Interesting blog. I have another take on what causes the behavioural difference we observe between groups of people. (The biological differences are insignificant. I’m a biologist and agree with Colbert – I’m colour blind). I think it all turns on our cultural icons and how they have evolved and influenced how we have developed.
Why did the western culture develop the industrial revolution and then far surpass other cultures in developing science and applying it to it’s civilization? I think the answer is an from an unlikely and unappreciated source. Only the western culture has cultural icons that develop skeptical thinking in its population. I know education, or the western school system, may want to claim the credit but I believe Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy (The Holy Trinity) deserve the credit. Indeed each of these innocent children stories, once started, evolved into more elaborate deceptions in their detailing that made them more believable to impressionistic minds.
Why would parents deceive their children this way. What is the hidden cultural agenda? Why would such stories persist in the culture if it did not confer an advantage? These memes are very important.
What other culture so thoroughly convinces kids one thing and then at an early age bursts their bubble about it.
Most religious oriented cultures today discourage skepticism. Those in control of these cultures are threatened by skepticism. A “doubting Thomas” is a derogatory term discouraging any questioning of a culturally held belief. Faith is a virtue or advanced as such by these cultures. One could argue it keeps believers gullible and child-like and thus easy to control. Ironically the belief in the tooth fairy is frequently used to label adults as being too trusting and ready to believe anything.
I contend that these three unappreciated cultural lies promote healthy skepticism. Only when you can inculcate disbelief in children in such a joyful and playful way can you develop a questioning way of viewing the world and thus advancing it. At least I think it worked for me.
Cheers,
Larry
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Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy myths get debunked by every child. Thus they all learn skepticism. Intriguing theory. Any links for further study of this theory?
I was always wondering why parents would blatantly lie to children. And, you are right, every single adult has already found out that the stories are lies.
#57 von Ishen L. Jones` am 00:10 - 00:10
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These findings are highly flawed. The only way to prove or disprove any of this is to have hundreds children all of different races placed into a group from with they are together from birth, or at least of an age at which they could not have already formed subconscious alignment towards anything. In which case there would have to be many controls set in place that I am fairly certain are impossible. You would need one sole caregiver, identical treatment, care, attention, living environments, choices, etc. Then there is also the many different personalities of these children to consider, which on its own makes any sort of research on this subject invalid. In conclusion until a completely unbiased and 100% sterile experiment of this nature is conducted, which could never happen. This theory can neither proved nor disproved, therefore this or any study on the mater has no grounds on which to claim it is correct. I apologize for any misspelled or misused words and all grammatically incorrect statements let them not detract from what I have said. If it means anything to anyone I am Black.
#58 von admin am 03:00 - 03:00
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Academic psychologists devised very clever experimental settings. Identical twins reared apart vs. together is the perfect science experiment with genetically identical children: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Twin_Family_Study
Furthermore, the right experimental design can observe random samples of normal, non-twin people exposed to different environmental stimuli and get to clear conclusions based on group differences in outcome. Basically large groups would compensate for the non-standardized treatments of individuals and avearage out to equal treatment in both groups.
Don’t forget, racial differences in IQ, criminality are undeniable statistical facts, see US Dept. of Justice statistics. We are only discussing if the reasons are genetic, or if slavery hundreds of years ago can be blamed. Note that Blacks growing up among Blacks, with no evil whites nearby, don’t fare too well either. While Chinese, Koreans, etc, no matter how discriminated, flourish world wide, be it in the US or Africa.