I grew up indoctrinated by political correctness. Like a large part of citizens in Western countries I was brainwashed: Races do not exist, all are equal. Saying anything different, saying that there are racial differences, is racism, a crime.
Read this, everything you need to know about scientific research about racial differences: RACE, EVOLUTION, and BEHAVIOR: A Life History Perspective, by J.P. Rushton
In school I heard disparaging remarks about Artur Jensen and other “unscientific” “dishonest” “cheating” scientists doing faulty research about race differences.
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray actually looked fairly convincing to me, but if even President Bill Clinton denounced it, there must be something wrong about it.
There always was some complex theory to explain away the IQ differences:
- different culture
- parental expectation
- mother’s malnourishment
- IQ measurements are racially and culturally biased
Adopted Children's IQ by Race
My opinion changed when I read about trans-racial adoption studies. That was the last drop that really disproved all these desperate attempts to explain away racial differences in intelligence.
“The best evidence for the genetic basis of race-IQ differences comes from trans-racial adoption studies of Oriental children, Black children, and Mixed-Race children. All these children have been adopted by White parents at an early age and have grown up in middle-class White homes.”
Chart 9 summarizes the results for Oriental children adopted into White middle-class homes.
Korean and Vietnamese babies from poor backgrounds, many of whom were malnourished, were adopted by White American and Belgian families. When they grew up, they excelled in school. The IQs of the adopted Oriental children were 10 or more points higher than the national average for the country they grew up in. Trans-racial adoption does not increase or decrease IQ. The three-way pattern of race differences in IQ remains.”
In plain English: adopted Asian babies grew up to be very bright, adopted black babies grew up to have low intelligence.
One more desperate argument that was posed to save the “racial equality” dogma:
They claimed “expectancy effects,” not genes, explained the pattern. They argued that the Black and White children were not treated the same. Even if parents took good care of their children, the schools, classmates, and society as a whole discriminated against Black children and this hurt their IQs. Because we expected Black children to do poorly in school, they lived up to our low expectations.”
Even that argument got promptly destroyed. Rushton:
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.
Quotes and chart from RACE, EVOLUTION, and BEHAVIOR: A Life History Perspective, by J.P. Rushton
That did it for me. It destroyed my ingrained indoctrinated beliefs that all races must be equal. It opened up my mind to the possibility that there could be racial differences.
Before we go on, may I stress a few more points
- I have no axe to grind against blacks. I am not interested in proving that blacks are stupid or inferior. I am not a white supremacist
- I have an axe to grind against dogmatism, blindness, stupidity. I have an axe to grind against the catholic church for repressing Galileo’s truth about the moving and revolving earth. And I have an axe to grind about political correctness repressing the truth, repressing research.
- This site is about human stupidity versus truth and consciousness
- Rushton, though much maligned, is not some crazy cook but one of the most prestigious research scientists to date: 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
Summary of Racial differences
Racial differences summarized (J.P. Rushton): Why does history show Africa trailing behind Asia and Europe? Why do Whites average between Orientals and Blacks in so many areas? Why do the groups with larger brains have lower rates of two-egg twinning? To know the answer you must look at all of the traits taken together (see Chart 1). The traits in Chart 1 form a pattern. No known environmental factor can explain all of them taken together. There is, however, a gene based explanation. The patterns make up what is called a “lifehistory.” They evolved together to meet the trials of life -- survival, growth, and reproduction.
Then of course, the non-scientific “evidence”, the hearsay, the anecdotal evidence, our daily experience, suddenly made sense:
The Whites who explored China were just as racist as those who explored Africa, but their descriptions were different from what they and the Arabs had written about Africans. In 1275 Marco Polo arrived in China from his native Italy to open trade with the Mongol Empire. He found that the Chinese had well built roads, bridges, cities connected by canals, census takers, markets, standardized weights and measures, and not only coins, but paper money as well. Even a postal system was in existence. All of these made him marvel when he compared the Chinese to what he saw in Europe and the Middle East.
Even though he was an Italian, proud of his people and well aware of the greatness of Ancient Rome, Marco Polo wrote: “Surely there is no more intelligent race on earth than the Chinese.”
In amazing ways, Rushton forms a coherent picture to make sense of all the racial differences shown in reasearch. Some differences are biological and can not be talked away by simple psychobabble or sociology-babble.
In a few cases medical treatment and medication showed racial differences. which proves a real quagmire for race equality dogmatist. Should they talk away and hide the differences as racist and cause medical malpractice and suffering for black patients? Or should they accept the scientific facts and actively promote racial analysis of medical studies and see their beloved pet dogma undermined?
Rushton’s book sums up the relevant research. Please forgive me for always quoting Rushton, incessantly. Nobody can say it better, nobody summed up the entire field in a more concise and coherent manner then Rushton.
Many statistics in Chart 1 come from the United States, where Orientals are a “model minority.”
They have fewer divorces, fewer out-of-wedlock births, and fewer reports of child abuse than Whites.
More Orientals graduate from college and fewer go to prison.
On the other hand Blacks are 12% of the American population and make up 50% of the prison population. In the U.S., one out of every three Black men is either in jail, on probation, or awaiting trial. That is much more than the number who graduate from college.
Chapter 2 shows how this racial pattern in crime is found worldwide. INTERPOL Yearbooks show the rate of violent crime (murder, rape, and serious assault) is four times lower in Asian and Pacific Rim countries than in African and Caribbean countries. Whites in the United States and in European countries are intermediate. The 1996 INTERPOL violent crime rates clearly show this pattern: Asian countries, 35 violent crimes per 100,000 people; European countries, 42; and African countries, 149.
Chapter 2 also finds that Oriental children are slower to mature than White children while Black children are faster to mature. This is true for the rate of bone and tooth development and the age at which a child first sits, crawls, walks, and puts on clothing. Oriental children do not begin to walk until about 13 months, White children at 12 months, and Black children at 11 months.
Chapter 3 looks at racial differences in sexual activity. Orientals are the least sexually active, whether measured by age of first intercourse, intercourse frequency, or number of sexual partners. Blacks are the most active on all of these. Once again Whites are in between. These contrasts in sexual activity lead to differences in the rate of diseases like syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, and chlamydia. There are high levels of AIDS in Africa, Black America, and the Caribbean and low levels in China and Japan. European countries again fall in between.
The races differ in rate of ovulation (Chapter 3). Not all women produce one egg during the menstrual cycle. When two or more eggs are produced at the same time, a pregnancy is more likely. So is the likelihood of producing fraternal twins (i.e., two-egg twins). The number of twins born is 16 out of every 1,000 births for Blacks, 8 out of every 1,000 births for Whites, and 4 or less for Orientals. Triplets and other multiple births are rarest in Orientals and highest in Blacks, with Whites in between.
Chapter 4 is about race and intelligence. Hundreds of studies on millions of people show a threeway pattern. IQ tests are often made to have an average score of 100, with a “normal” range from 85 to 115. Whites average from 100 to 103. Orientals in Asia and the U.S. tend to have higher scores, about 106, even though IQ tests were made for use in the Euro-American culture. Blacks in the U.S., the Caribbean, Britain, Canada, and in Africa average lower IQs — about 85. The lowest average IQs are found for sub-Saharan Africans — from 70 to 75.
Chapter 4 also looks at brain size. Bigger brains have more brain cells and this leads to higher IQs. The races vary in brain size. The Collaborative Perinatal Project followed more than 35,000 children from birth to seven years. Orientals had larger brains than Whites at birth, four months, one year, and seven years. Whites had larger brains than Blacks at all ages (see Chart 2). The data on adults in Chart 2 come from a sample of 6,325 U.S. Army personnel.
Chapter 5 asks whether differences in our brain size, our bodies and our behavior are because of genes, environment, or both. It also asks whether individual differences can tell us anything about race differences.
Chapter 6 discusses the gene based “life-history theory” I have proposed to explain the racial pattern in brain size, intelligence, and other traits. Evolutionary biologists call it the r-K scale of reproductive strategies. At one end of this scale are r-strategies that rely on high reproductive rates. At the other end are K-strategies that rely on high levels of parental care. This scale is generally used to compare the life histories of different species of animals. I have used it to explain the smaller but real differences between the human races.
On this scale, Orientals are more K-selected than Whites, while Whites are more K-selected than Blacks. Highly K-selected women produce fewer eggs (and have bigger brains) than r-selected women. Highly K-selected men invest time and energy in their children rather than the pursuit of sexual thrills. They are “dads” rather than “cads.”
Chapter 7 shows that the race differences in reproductive strategies make sense in terms of human evolution. Modern humans evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Africans and non-Africans then split about 100,000 years ago. Orientals and Whites split about 40,000 years ago.
The more north the people went “Out of Africa,” the harder it was to get food, gain shelter, make clothes, and raise children. So the groups that evolved into today’s Whites and Orientals needed larger brains, more family stability, and a longer life. But building a bigger brain takes time and energy during a person’s development. So, these changes were balanced by slower rates of growth, lower levels of sex hormones, less aggression, and less sexual activity.
Why? Because Africa, Europe, and Asia had very different climates and geographies that called for different skills, resource usage, and lifestyles. Blacks evolved in a tropical climate which contrasted with the cooler one of Europe in which Whites evolved and even more so with the cold Arctic lands where Orientals evolved.
Because intelligence increased the chances of survival in harsh winter environments, the groups that left Africa had to evolve greater intelligence and family stability. This called for larger brains, slower growth rates, lower hormone levels, less sexual potency, less aggression, and less impulsivity. Advanced planning, self-control, rule-following, and longevity all increased in the non-Africans.
I realize that these topics are controversial and that readers will have many questions. Chapter 8 lists the questions I am most asked about Race, Evolution, and Behavior, and my answers to them.
Conclusion
Race is more than “just skin deep.” The pattern of Oriental-White-Black differences is found across history, geographic boundaries, and political-economic systems. It proves the biological reality of race. Theories based only on culture cannot explain all the data shown in Chart 1. The next three chapters describe the scientific findings on race differences (summarized in Chart 1) in greater detail. Later chapters explain why these differences follow such a pattern.
Quotes and chart from RACE, EVOLUTION, and BEHAVIOR: A Life History Perspective, by J.P. Rushton
You can download the abridged version, in various languages, here: RACE, EVOLUTION, and BEHAVIOR: A Life History Perspective, by J.P. Rushton
If you really are interested, then, of course, you will read the unabridged version. Unfortunately, I could not find it at Amazon
#1 by Dani on June 17, 2012 - 1:14 pm
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Adopted children have higher suiciderates, suffer from depression and other mental illnesses. These stem from social problems, bullying, loss of identity, not feeling accepted etc.
If anything, social factors contribute to intelligence.
There is no real truth, that´s the beauty of science. Sure these facts can determine something within a few boundaries and limit´s, but it doesn´t mean that it is applicable to reality.
#2 by Lars on June 24, 2012 - 8:49 am
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#3 by NeuroAce on July 2, 2012 - 4:12 pm
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Wow.
IQ scores are based on tests. You need to look into the field of neuropsychology and explore articles within this field. It is common to use cognitive measures to explore constructs and theories. It is not my intention to look at intellectual functioning, as there is considerable disagreement as to what intelligence really is.
And I did not post an article nor my findings on this site, so I’m not sure why you are concluding that I lack data representing socioeconomic factors. I appreciate your eagerness to point out flaws, but I did not realize that I needed to post my entire methodology on this forum.
Also, thank you for your criticism regarding my ability to measure human intellectual aptitude. However, I’m not concerned with your assessment of my abilities based on an internet posting. Fortunately, I have time to gain proficiency at the two ivy league sites at which I am training
The conclusion of genetic inferiority is premature and many variables are not explored. However, it is impossible to explore every variable, so I certainly do not intend to. Empirical research adds to existing knowledge. I’m surprised to find someone who actually believes that one study should answer everything. Wow. Thank you for that enlightening post though.
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#5 by admin on July 8, 2012 - 4:15 am
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I would be interested to know where Lamarckian theory has been resurrected. Maybe in obesity. Heredity of traits has beem shown by Bouchard’s twin studies. It is clear that environment plays a big role too. But the best environment can not elevate people beyond their genetic potential. “Be all you can be” is the limit.
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#7 by Mike on July 2, 2012 - 3:48 pm
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I guess the socioeconomic crowd doesn’t understand the trans-racial adoption studies, or the MRI brain volume studies, or the large sample size IQ tests that show around the world that northeast asians score the highest, whites in the middle, and blacks on the bottom. If the test was biased, then why do non english speaking asians score the highest on a white designed test….hmm. Why has there never been a majority black society of great inventions and achievement. The conditions of a country reflect the intelligence of it’s people; you can’t blame everything on white people.
As for the serial killer thing, over 20% are non white, so blacks represent at least their percentage of the population, if not more. The media focuses more on white serial killers.
#8 by NeuroAce on July 2, 2012 - 4:43 pm
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Yes, but environment can change brain structure, function, and connectivity. Look up research on interpersonal trauma and neurocircuitry. Adults, of all races, with histories of childhood maltreatment have significantly smaller brain sizes, hyperactivity in the amygdala, and abnormalities in the hippocampus and hypothalamus. The participants from trans-racial adoption studies are predominantly children adopted at an average age of 7 years old. Look up studies by Rutter. Children adopted from Romanian orphanages after 6 months had significant developmental delays and poorer IQ scores. Children adopted before 6 months showed typical development and intact IQ.
Culture plays an important role in IQ testing, but that does not mean the tests are biased. There are some questions that are based on information that is typically learned in secondary school (e.g., world history, etc.). Poor education and lack of cognitive stimulation would result in lower scores compared to someone who is constantly stimulated. But this does not negate the role of genetics. For some people, no amount of stimulation will change cognitive performance. We have not really explored this in blacks to determine that lower IQ scores are solely the result of genetic differences.
As a child, I was teased by my black peers for reading books. Reading is crucial in IQ performance. There are some measures that assess processing speed and working memory, which are culturally neutral, but verbal and non-verbal measures really do require stimulation in early childhood.
Also, a disproportionate amount of these studies look at blacks from “urban” communities or “low SES.” A thorough research study should also look at confounding variables and other factors that may mediate or moderate the results.
As for blaming everything on whites, I completely agree with you. It needs to stop. I don’t think we can continue to blame whites for the state of blacks. Although black history is scarred by the atrocities of slavery and the Jim Crow era, playing the victim is not going to change a thing.
Arguments that attempt to point out who is “worse” are not going to lead to answers. Blacks are disproportionately represented in prisons. Does that mean every black person you see is a criminal? No. I have met some pretty racist white people in my lifetime. Does that mean every white person I meet is racist? No. I have white, black, hispanic, and asian friends. We have more in common than people realize.
#9 by Big Daryle on July 15, 2012 - 4:19 pm
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Blacks are vastly inferior to whites, that is obvious to anyone with a brain.
#10 by Gordon on October 24, 2012 - 10:58 am
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It’s not at all obvious that they are “vastly inferior”. These are comparisons between individual traits, across large population sizes. You cannot point to random individuals of each of these races, and make such conclusions about intelligence, without much more personal information. That black man, passing you in the street, may be far more intelligent than you are! Also, nature has no such motivating factor as inferior or superior, only what works and successfully passes its genes on to future generations. You are making an arbitrary value judgement that intelligence is the most important criteria on which to judge their inferiority. What about the black’s greater fecundity and athletic prowess? You are being as superficial as the eugenicists, who thought that blue eyes and blonde hair conferred superiority! I would hazard a guess that your own simplistic approach to this topic is an indication of your own less than stellar intellectual capacity!
#11 by Gordon on October 24, 2012 - 11:11 am
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For the elimination of doubt, I agree with the conclusions of this article. I have also read the text upon which it is based.
Are you only able to post one reply to a particular comment? I tried to post this clarification to the original poster, twice, without success!
#12 by admin on October 24, 2012 - 10:30 pm
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The race differences in IQ mean
So one particular Black can quite likely be more intelligent then me. But probably not more intelligent then the Nobel prize winner in chemistry.
I did write about athletic prowess of Blacks, look at the race and iq thread in this blog. This is one of my points: races are different. One white among the top 100 m runners.
And yes, black fecundity is part of Rushton’s theory. So much that they have earlier menarche and higher rates of twin birth. Not just behavior, but actual “hardwired” differences.
#13 by Gordon on October 25, 2012 - 2:45 am
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As my clarification posts indicate, I actually accept the conclusions of the article. They seemed not to post originally, but have since all appeared!
I understand what the article was saying. I was challenging the trite response of the poster I responded to.
Intelligent people can handle nuance.
Dummies just see Asians>Whites>>Blacks!
Although knowledge is better than ignorance, there’s tremendous scope for this research to be misused to persecute people!
#14 by Gordon on October 24, 2012 - 11:03 am
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I should just add, for the elimination of doubt, that I accept the conclusions of the article. I read the original text upon which this article is based.
#15 by Gordon on October 24, 2012 - 11:08 am
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For the elimination of doubt, I agree with the conclusions of this article. I have also read the text upon which it is based.
#16 by sayo ogba on July 24, 2012 - 2:56 am
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i am abacked at the nature of information the writer of this article has tried to Marshall in the noble intent of proving racial inferiority of the African race. The black race will not be subjugated once again. it is such ill guided notions of scientific truth that gave rise to the slave trade.
I for one am a black man.
i have been at the top of all my classes in uk since primary
i have 11 A*’s GCSE
I have 3A*’S 1 A at Alevel
i am studying mathematics with statistics at oxford
i have 3 published books with my work
i am a member of the international high iq society
and incase it is not clear to anyone , i am not stupid!!!
my message to anyone reading is , don’t listen to such racial prejudice concealed and guised as science . Intellect , as stated by my friends neuroscience lecturer , is independent of race and more down to the environment and ones motivation. So if you want to archive, don’t let you race hinder you
#17 by admin on July 28, 2012 - 4:49 am
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Your neuroscience lecturer would not be at the University, if he promoted race-realist beliefs. He would have been fired long ago. They tried to dismiss J. Philippe Rushton, in spite of having tenure, in spite of having more publications and citations then the entire psychology department together.
Politically correct indoctrination is very strong and powerful and frequently wins against high IQ.
I do expect better arguments from a high IQ person like you. Did you study the evidence? Can you refute it scientifically? Are you aware that we do not claim that Black IQ is 85, or 75 with a Standard Deviation of 2? Do you understand the Bell curve of a a SD of IQ 85, or 100, with SD of 15?
The differences are in the extreme tail ends. and in the percentile of high and low IQ.
Analyze my articles about Race and IQ, comment and refute them.
Also check a very intelligent black man:
#18 by migratory wings on July 29, 2012 - 9:16 pm
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“i am studying mathematics with statistics at oxford”
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Since you are studying mathematics with statistics at oxford, do you know the very basic concept of Statistics is that the Sample Size must be large enough to construct the Confidence Level of the Statistics Analysis result?
‘I’, no matter how magnificent, is just one sample; hence ‘I’ is far from being enough to build a large Samples Size in the Statistics World. It doesn’t matter how many sentences initialized with an ‘I’ you want to compose, it is still just one sample.
Nobody can argue the unprecedented attainments level that Michael Jordon has achieved in the professional Sports world. If one sample is enough to reach conclusion as your logic have implied, then all the African American boys may just drop out the school today and start to pursue a NBA career by following Mike’s foot-print — a crazy idea even Mike won’t agree with.
#19 by omuyo on July 24, 2012 - 2:58 am
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i am abacked at the nature of information the writer of this article has tried to Marshall in the noble intent of proving racial inferiority of the African race. The black race will not be subjugated once again. it is such ill guided notions of scientific truth that gave rise to the slave trade.
I for one am a black man.
i have been at the top of all my classes in uk since primary
i have 11 A*’s GCSE
I have 3A*’S 1 A at Alevel
i am studying mathematics with statistics at oxford
i have 3 published books with my work
i am a member of the international high iq society
and incase it is not clear to anyone , i am not stupid!!!
my message to anyone reading is , don’t listen to such racial prejudice concealed and guised as science . Intellect , as stated by my friends neuroscience lecturer , is independent of race and more down to the environment and ones motivation. So if you want to archive, don’t let you race hinder you
#20 by admin on July 28, 2012 - 4:21 am
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@omuyo: good for you. Now let us test if your intelligence allows you to rationally analyze math, statistics, logic and proof without prejudice, dogma. If you can analyze facts and data without being blinded by political correctness dogma.
I overcame my false education, but it took a long time. This entire blog is devoted to the idea of highly intelligent people being unable to see the truth. Like the pope with Galileo Galilei.
#21 by migratory wings on July 29, 2012 - 7:17 pm
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I have no comment about the IQ levels of whatever racial groups.
The only thing bother me is that all the politicians in USA will never take a break in creating so many biased rules/requirements irrefutably in favor of specific ethnic group(s) at the cost of other ethnic group(s); in the meanwhile they never feel shameful in proclaiming that all the ethnic groups are the same in whatsoever regards. I just wonder why they haven’t announced that the color White, Black, Red and Yellow are actually the same color.
EURO members now have very serious financial unbalance problems. If all the races are equal in whatsoever regards, then why some EURO members need huge amount of bail-out money yearly from the other members just to keep themselves from collapse?
#22 by Jadedkiss on August 5, 2012 - 2:26 pm
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So what about history?
The bias of the writer of this study?
The fact that this is pure and utter nonsense?
Africa had empires before europeans had managed to sail.
This is nonsense, you cant continously degrade a race using every resource available to you (or rather stolen by you) and then say they’re a weak/poor/stupid. Who made them that way?
Who colonised, killed, raped, institutionalised, cheated, destroyed social structures, manipulated, continues to manipulate and supress.
Fuck science, Read a damn history book.
You honestly think race is a factor in the EU zones problems
jesus you people are arragonant. The largest group of highly intelligent bigots I have ever met.
#23 by admin on August 6, 2012 - 12:11 am
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It seems that Blacks themselves knew how to enslave others, without needing whites to teach them.
It also is not very clear why slavery and other allegedly problems caused by whites could not be overcome by 50 years of affirmative action. While Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Jews in the US could easily surpass discrimination and overrun elite Universities with more success then the white elite.
#24 by Human-Stupidity.com on August 21, 2012 - 6:14 pm
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High IQ: Not as good for you as you thought
#25 by Destiny on September 24, 2012 - 6:49 pm
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You racists never quit do you? Trying so hard to’prove’ that blacks are infeerior while completely ignoring the several hundreds of years blacks have been oppressed both socially, economically AND MENTALLY to the point that a certain group of them do not think they can achieve anything. Before any tests were conducted to try to prove their lack of intlligence racists have been calling them dumb since they came to this continent and created laws to enslave them and prevent them from receiving ANY kind of education untill the end of slavery. Other racial or ethnic minorities, while discriminated against, were not barred from learning or advancing by the local laws and ordinances. Also, Asians have historically been thought of as super intelligent so its not surprising that a poor Asian can come over here with the belief they are mentally capable of being successful. As far as these trans racial adoption statistics go, they prove nothing. There are plenty of people that have deep seeded racial stereotypes that they are unaware of or refuse to acknowledge. These stereotypes dictate how we think about and respond to others. Since blacks are often stereotyped as dumb, did it ever occur to you that these white parents who adopt black children unknowingly treat them as though they are less capable or not as smart especially if they came from a poor/abused background? I’ll bet you that white parents adopting black children more often enroll them in sports and dance while white children with Asian kids enroll them in music, chess, and other activities that are far more mentally stimulating. Even when the child is raised in a middle class environment if there is a belief that the child is inherently less intelligent, there will be low expectations from the beginning and they will not be pushed as hard to succeed but will simply get a pat on the back for mediocrity. Have you seen the way Asian parents raise their kids? It has A LOT to do with their high test scores and white parents see how well Asians do and raise their Asian kids with the same expectations (even higher than they would with white kids). In fact, I find foreign kids who come over here from ANY race to do better on average academically than kids from American parents (that includes subsaharan blacks from Nigeria, Ghana, and other African countries who push their kids to succeed and they end up getting higher scores/grades than the white kids and comparable to their Asian peers.) Its not nature, it truly is nurture. Its clear that the author of this blog already felt blacks were intillectually inferior and was just trying to find another stupid study to convince themselves and others of the BS lie.
#26 by Destiny on September 24, 2012 - 10:03 pm
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Why are IQ tests the benchmark for intelligence? They are only a measure of how well people think a certain way, but not a true measure of genuine intelligence. Proving that a few scientists and great thinkers had a high IQ does not mean that all great scientists and thinkers have a high IQ. Also, what is this emphasis on Nobel Peace Prize winners? This organization was created by whites/ Europeans to pat themselves on the back for THEIR inventions. There are plenty of people of many races who have created several inventions and innovations helpful to the progress of mankind that have never even been considered for a Nobel Peace Prize so the fact that there are far less blacks who have been awarded that prize is completely irrelevant to their intelligence level, especially if racial biases such as the ones expressed on this blog have anything to do with the nomination process. Why are poverty and lack of intelligence or power always linked together? There are plenty of rich people who are dumb as bricks and many smart poor who live in violently oppressive countries that won’t even utilize its brightest citizens. There have been several sub African civilizations such as Ethiopia, Mali, and Great Zimbabwe which have contributed innovations in agriculture, irrigation, waste disposal (something that the Europeans of the middle ages could have used while they were dying from the plague of their own crap filling the streets of their cities),wielding. and architecture (seamless, ‘or motarless’ walls, buildings, and artifacts), as well as ones that had a pre-colonial written language, but American history books have refused to acknowledge them and during apartheid and European domination of Africa, white scientists were actually fired if they refused to cover up and lie about these innovations. Also, there have actually been several African Americans who have created modern day innovations such as George Washington Carver, the individual who created the traffic light, and the first doctor to perform a particularly difficult form of open heart surgery (have to get their names) even with a very limited education. Innovation and contribution can not be measured in the form of some arbitrary test. Thinking in a certain pattern does not necessarily produce intelligence and it definitely does not produce wisdom. There are plenty of people who are currently being PHYSICALLY and SOCIALLY oppressed in Africa just like they CURRENTLY are in Asia that are very brilliant but you will never know, because they will probably die an early death like the rest in a sea of poverty, violence, and devastation.
For those who compare crime rates among races, why do we look at the current crime some blacks in America commit today but ignore the hundreds of thousands of blacks and native Americans who were murdered at the hands of whites in this country. I guess those crimes don’t matter, because they were committed by an ‘intelligent race’ huh? What about the post industrialized genocides of Eastern Europe and Armenia which led to death of millions? For whites to be so much more intelligent than everyone, when a national economic crises occurs, the first thought is to irrationally blame a small minority of the population for their problem then kill them off with the belief that that would solve their economy? Doesn’t sound very smart to me, and these are whites in the POST industrial era, not some society from the dark ages. History has continually proven that whites are no less violent, barbaric, or prone to destruction as any other racial group. Every racial group, including sub saharan blacks, have had a time of power, dominance, and flourishing innovations and cultures. Mathematics, astronomy, and other innovations did not start with the Greeks or Egyptians. Do you actually believe that civilizations that existed long before these did not have any system of counting or record keeping? Get out of here. There are several ancient artifacts that are just being discovered today that disprove all that crap about Africa and why would they have been talked about 50 years earlier when there was a clear agenda to keep those things secret to make blacks look dumb and unproductive?
There is no reason for me to rely on European made tests or history books for black African history or intelligence. One thing that has always been prevalent from these studies is that they were designed to try to prove people of an already existing racial bias. These biases existed long before these tests and the tests will continue to support them but there is no reason for me to believe them. So the black American students who were raised in a society that constantly told them they were dumber and told them that they had to take a test biased towards Europeans and those (such as Asians) who intently studied European culture did not score high on an IQ test. So what? There is no way that you can prove to me that that test is a true measure to anyone’s intelligence or ability to be rational, productive human beings in society. It merely proves that certain individuals are better at thinking in a certain PATTERN than others and have been CONDITIONED better to think that way. Some of these individuals have gone on to do great things but there are many people with high IQ scores who contribute NOTHING to society but brag about how smart they supposedly are because they took some test. Who cares? There is more than one way to skin a cat and there is more than one way to display evidence of exceptional intelligence.
Also, with regards to these trans-racial adoption statistics, they are still pretty irrelevant. In a society that constantly characterizes blacks as dumb and Asians as super intelligent, it is very likely that these white adoptive parents, as well meaning as they were, also sub consciously harbored these same beliefs about blacks and Asians and raised them accordingly. In other words, I can assure you that more of these black kids were enrolled in sports and dance by their white parents and patted them on the back when they ignored their studies to be on the football team with the belief that their black children would be better suited in these fields. White parents with Asian kids probably did exactly what is stereotyped of Asian parents to do which is put there kids in music classes, chess matches, spelling bees, and other activities which are far more mentally stimulating and emphasized good grades and academic achievement. Your economic class and income does not automatically mean you escape SOCIALIZATION and certain expectations brought about by racism and prejudice. Wealth DOES NOT equal intelligence, power DOES NOT equal good morals or ability. Relatively stupid people who are ruthless and are SOMEWHAT crafty can conquer the nation. It doesn’t take a genius to know that a gun can speak louder than a math book .
And another thing too. Whites need to get off this Affirmative Action crap. Affirmative Action had a brief heyday in the 70′s and 80′s, but most laws have outright outlawed most Affirmative Action practices today. A couple decades is NOT ENOUGH to bring a population that has been socially, economically, AND MENTALLY oppressed for hundreds of years to the same socio-economic status of whites. There was NO HEAD START! They were already significantly held back. As far as Asians go, Asians were in this country before Affirmative Action so, again, blacks did not have any head start over them. Also, Asians did not have to come over here with the stigma that they were not smart enough to succeed so even if SOME came here poor, they were not necessarily mentally defeated. Also, there are many Asians who come over here from educated backgrounds just like many black Nigerians who come here more for the opportunity to use their skills to gain more education and make more money than they would in their home country. Also, Affirmative Action has benefited white women more than it has benefited African American as a whole. And to whoever said that making such a statement is sexist, if you don’t think your views on blacks are racist, I certainly don’t think that my views on white women benefiting from Affirmative Action sexist.
Also, to that individual who said that the black Nigerians come over here and spend their whole lives preparing for the SAT so they’re higher SAT scores are evidence that they are actually dumb people who have to work really hard to get the same SAT scores as some whites, makes NO SENSE. People ultimately come to this country for opportunity for a better life (job, money, living conditions), not just for education. Nigerian schools for the middle class may actually be more challenging than American schools but the opportunities for good jobs may be scarce. Part of partaking in the American Dream to them is to do well in American schools, so they prepare themselves by maintaining good grades and being studious throughout their school years ( JUST LIKE ASIANS AND MOST PEOPLE WHO DO WELL ON THE SATs!). So, yes, their hard work tends to make them stellar students. How does that prove that they’re dumb, though? Any smart person knows that you have to work hard at want you want and practice makes perfect. Even geniuses spend years on their craft before they get to an exceptional level. Are you implying that the white or Asian kids who do get high SAT scores use less effort and do not also spend years getting good grades and being studious like the Nigerian kids do? How do you even begin to prove that? But this is what I’m talking about. When people are hell bent on trying to prove that THEY are somehow inherently smarter than others simply because of melanin or lack thereof, they will deny any logical evidence proving otherwise. They will keep defending the BS logic that IQ tests are the main measure of intelligence with no real proof and keep telling blacks that they are dumb so they will actually believe that no matter how much they contribute to society and no matter how little these racists jerks contribute, somehow, these prejudiced losers will always be smarter, because of some random test that someone of their race made up for the sole purpose to try to make blacks look inferior. If the black person does score high on the IQ test, they will just reason it away by saying that the black person has a large amount of white genes that they don’t know about even though most of the blacks who don’t do well on the test have THE SAME AMOUNT OF WHITE GENES OR EVEN MORE as the ones who do well on the test. There is no winning situation for a black person in the eyes of these racists. They will keep making up excuses to try to convince themselves that their skin color gives them some false inherent benefits even though they are sitting here on this very blog arguing with articulate blacks who are just, if not more, mentally capable as them. So insecure about their own intelligence that they have to look to racially biased pseudo scientific studies which are still not conducted with all things being equal just so they can try to convince themselves and others that they are smart. I don’t need a white person to tell me I’m smart for me to know it so why do some whites feel that they need to keep creating these dumb biased studies to make themselves feel more intelligent. If you’re so smart, prove it. Go out and contribute to the world and stop always trying to compare yourselves to others. And please don’t use the accomplishments of a small group of really intelligent whites to try to prove that YOU are intelligent, because you’re arguments would be futile and irrelevant. You don’t see me using the African Americans who’ve made great innovations to speak for my ability to well in society.
#27 by Final Thoughts on October 12, 2012 - 9:52 am
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I grew up believing that white people were manipulative, not because i was taught to but because its what i have always witnessed. u can argue but its not going to change. u actually go and try and find more things that seaprate people? isn’t that a big problem with why there is so much wrong with the world?
#28 by nROM on April 12, 2013 - 12:17 pm
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I grew up thinking black people loooooooved to blame all their problems on whites and racism………not because of what I was taught, but on what I observed……………hey, I’m observing it again!!!!!!
#29 by Rique on October 13, 2012 - 12:49 pm
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you’re just as racist & ignorant the next person. If your little silly homemade non factual charts and graphs help you sleep at night, that help yourself pumpkin. You want to sit here on the internet & compare intelligence & profess that whatever research you’ve done has caused you to become somewhat racist….OMG. Are you kidding me. This world is already divided as it is & racism had been around forever. You need a retard chart that shows we’re divided to make you racist. That shows me that you never thought we were all equal in the first place. Oh btw, im African American. Surprise!!!!! We’re all ignorant, fried chicken & watermelon eating monkeys. Sorry to disappoint you. And although some people think that Blacks don’t have souls, I’m still going to pray for you love. Enjoy your charts & graphs. You’re too cute.
#30 by Jack on November 5, 2012 - 5:21 pm
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Do you know what Racism really means? It for one, is a belief, while the information above is science. The two are completely different. This has long since been an established fact, African Americans simply tend to score lower than Caucasians. That doesn’t mean there are no smart Africans, or that there are no dumb Caucasians. What it means is that two different sub-species evolved from different climates. Believing that large changes in climate and ecosystem didn’t have a small – but noticeable effect on cranial capacity and birth time, is ignorant. You simply can’t deny that genetics plays a role in intelligence, or else Monkeys would be just as smart as people, and Rats just as smart as Monkeys, and so on. I am not a Eugenicist. I believe everyone deserves a fair and equal chance. I’m the most liberal person you’ll ever meet on that subject. I even believe in stronger moral rights of certain animals. But that doesn’t mean facts are no longer true. Facts are facts. If you told me my neighbor had an IQ twenty points lower than mine, I would treat him with the equality I received. Believing anything else, is wrong. And accusing people like the author, and myself of racism, means you really don’t understand what the word means.
#31 by NOYFB on October 19, 2012 - 5:41 am
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Outside of nut job blogs, pseudo-science circles and the nightmarish world of “white” supremacists, Philippe Rushton was a fraud and his work lacked scientific merit.
Now let me see where this blog fits in.
#32 by Georgia Resident on October 26, 2012 - 12:50 pm
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I love it when self-proclaimed black geniuses come to post comments about how evil and racist it is to talk about racial differences in intelligence, and end up proving the point.
#33 by Albert kaku on October 29, 2012 - 2:43 am
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I.Q test are archaic and can not test for creative intelligence, emphatic intelligence, social intelligence. A lot of psychologists disagree on the definition of “intelligence”. Current I.Q test can be considered to test for time spent in the western education system.
#34 by admin on October 29, 2012 - 6:23 am
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IQ tests, properly administered, are very powerful, very valid.
They are mainly attacked by the same politically correct crowd that spreads nonsense like “race does not exist”, but then demands racial quotas for the races that don’t exist.
Most true concerns have been taken into account. Of course, one should not test immigrants with tests mainly based on language, and blind people with tests based on graphics.
Other forms of intelligence are not intelligence. They are skills, and yes, some of them are partially in-born. People just use the word “intelligence” to make them sound better. But, terminology is not so important, so let us talk about facts.
They are simply empathy, creativity, etc and certainly can get you advanced in life. For same empathy and social skills, again, the higher IQ person will be more successful.
The German school system that separates kids, at 10 years of age, into different schools, has been very maligned. Lower IQ kids get into vocational schools. And there they can flourish and become great plumbers or seamstresses. Instead of getting frustrated in College.
Knowing one has low IQ one can find different focus in life. Like sales person instead of engineer. And knowing one is not social can help too, in order to avoid customer-oriented professions.
And, again, IQ has been studied for a century on hundreds of Millions people. It is probably the best studied topics in Psychology.
#35 by gibo bermuda on November 18, 2012 - 3:47 pm
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So a child of an asian and a black parent would be mular to a white child mentaly??
#36 by gibo bermuda on November 18, 2012 - 3:48 pm
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*similar
#37 by Lee Ta E on January 2, 2013 - 4:47 pm
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Noticed verbal altercation between the whites and blacks here. Therefore, it is without doubt that the Orientals are the most reserved, less offended and less affected due to their genuine intellect and superior mental capacity..lol
#38 by lokkin on January 3, 2013 - 1:28 pm
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I think, No I know this is “hog-wash”. I for one am Black, grew up poor in an “urban” area however I am also High-IQ depending on the test typically btw (127-132). I also have a child Black not mixed that has been identified as gifted, has an IQ high enough to qualify for Mensa and has been skipped a grade. That being said I think this study along with alot if not all standardized test ignore or do not give enough weight to environmental and socioeconomic factors. I’m a very visual thinker and remember an incident in a AP math class where I had difficulty with a set of word problems not because I didn’t understand the math concepts required but because I did not know what a trough was, by the time I got over my embarrassment and asked my teacher what it was he couldn’t believe that was the only question I needed answered to successfully complete the work and move on.
#39 by admin on January 3, 2013 - 4:58 pm
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What percentage Black are you, what percentage other races?
How many Blacks do you know with similar achievement and intelligence? And how many Asians, Whites, Jews?
You are 3 standard deviations above the black mean of 85. Asians and Jews with the same IQ are less then 2 Standard Deviations above the mean. You are just very rare for your race, rare as an IQ of 145 for a white person. Rare, but not impossible.
#40 by Pstarr on January 11, 2013 - 10:13 pm
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So if you and and an average run of the mill black person, had to compete in a pure aptitude test (least say in the rainforest) where both of you have never been, with tools you have never used before… in other words starting from ZERO with no prior context to help you other than a brief summary of the new tools and how to use them. And the black person won this contest… what would that make you? The dumbest person to ever walk the earth?
#41 by Pstarr on January 11, 2013 - 10:16 pm
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Because stats don’t mean a thing… if YOU can’t beat the stats. intelligence like everything else is an individual sport.
#42 by Ed Rorrk on January 3, 2013 - 3:13 pm
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a website so devoid of relevant information let alone sloppy layout and form. I am done here and I am leaving.
#43 by pentazoid on January 6, 2013 - 10:13 pm
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Rushton theory that black people are ”r-selected” and that whites and “asians” are K-selected is complete and utter bullshit. He discounts the fact that at various times in history, the birth rate of black people and birth rate of whites were very similar to each other and doesn’t explained why “asians” as a group are generally smaller in body size proportions compared to “africans”, and the r-selection animals are generally smaller and K-selective animals are larger in body size.His climate hypothesis fails to account for why northern europeans did not developed advanced civilizations until their initial contacts with the romans and why don’t american indians have an IQ similar to that of ASIANS , despite being the closest genetically to people of north east asian descent. Brain size does not correlate with intelligence 100 percent . If it did, then their should be a huge IQ difference between men and women , and the IQ gap between men and women should be larger than the IQ gap of blacks and whites of the same gender.The minessota transracial adoption study doesn’t support Rushton’s theory because their were asian adoptees had a lower IQ compared to the IQ of east asian as a group.Also in the transracial racial adoption study, blacks tended to be deplaced at a later age than the other adopteees, so that would distort the results of the IQ scores.
If your objective is really to discover the truth about why their are social and cultural discrepancies between various populations, you wouldn’t used Rushton work as a source. Not because of the claim he attempts and fails to verify with science, but because he implements a shitty methodology that he uses to draw his conclusions. Plus, Rushton gets most of his funding from the pioneer fund, an organization whose presidents wanted to deport black people from america and who supported various other eugenic policies. You would view all of the scientific literature on the topic , you would view all of the literature that draws different conclusions from rushtons and those who have criticized Rushton’s methodology and conclusions as well. You just don’t used one shady source that draws the conclusions that you agree with and then call yourself ” scientifically objective”
#44 by admin on January 7, 2013 - 3:32 am
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If you are really interested, read more of Rushton’s work, especially the abridged version of his book http://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/reb.html
You seem to be honestly looking for truth and understanding. Most of your concerns are honest and valid but can be explained.
The Pioneer fund was the only one that would fund him, all others actively discriminate against such politically incorrect research. Rushton publishes and highly prestigious scientific journals, this is only possible if your work is scientifically impeccable. Even more so if you have such unpopular results
I was wondering about US native Indians, I think similar to Australian aborigines or other low IQ Asians, they must have had a different development. It just happens ……… or Rushton might have a better explanation.
Cranial size vs IQ has a formula that relates relative cranial size to body size. It is not absolute size, or else elephants would have the highest IQ.
Rushton managed to rebut his critics, he has major peer reviewed articles replying to Nisbett and Flynn, showing some maior raisin picking or omissions on their side. I quoted some of these articles, or look at his site or University page for his publications.
Most race realists are not anti-Black. All has been tried, to no avail. If you can help to make prosperous law abiding intelligent inventive cultures similar to a Chinatown in Detroit, US inner cities, or in any African country, if you can stop the decline of Zimbabwe agriculture and law and order, or of South Africa, power to you. If you can create black schools in the US with the same success as Asian and white schools, you will be my hero. 50 or more years of US government effort failed to do so.
#45 by Pstarr on January 11, 2013 - 10:12 pm
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So if you and and an average run of the mill black person, had to compete in a pure aptitude test (least say in the rainforest) where both of you have never been, with tools you have never used before… in other words starting from ZERO with no prior context to help you other than a brief summary of the new tools and how to use them. And the black person won this contest… what would that make you? The dumbest person to ever walk the earth?
#46 by g money on January 17, 2013 - 11:06 am
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What is the point of this article? Is it that the author thinks black people are stupid and wants to spread hate. A lot of people hate blacks; we get it.
#47 by admin on January 17, 2013 - 11:31 am
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The author did a profound study of the literature about IQ and race. He does not THINK black people are stupid, rather he found, counter to his politically correct education and indoctrination, that blacks, on average, have a much lower IQ then Whites. And Asians and Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQ
Politically correct but factually wrong teachings spread hate. They make Blacks think that Whites are to blame for their misfortunes, not their own lower IQ, higher criminality and problematic black culture.
Read more about race and iq
#48 by TJ Tretman on April 29, 2013 - 2:05 pm
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I don’t this this shows any race is inferior. What some races lack in some categories, they make up for in other categories. I don’t know the validity of this information though.
#49 by Asian dude on May 2, 2013 - 3:41 pm
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I have read Rushton’s unabridged publications, and I do agree with what the blog concludes and denotes.
First of all, this has NOTHING to do with superiority. It is very obvious race differences that show up significantly (and consistently) on large meta-analyses of IQ tests data.
Secondly, these race differences simply show how evolution works. It shows which strategy is the most successful upon thousands of years of natural selection. For the Ashkenazis and East Asians, that means to have higher IQ, and for the Africans, it means to have greater physical ability. Again, let me emphasize, it has nothing to do with superiority, it is simply how nature works. East Asians are mostly hairless, have the least natural muscular mass and development, are considerably of lesser height in comparison to the other races, and have larger cranial capacity. This strategy seemed to have work for those living in East Asia for thousands of years. Luckily and incidentally, now, at least in many fields of work and academics, this is advantageous for them. If the situation now demands more physical abilities to survive, they would be severely disadvantaged. In any sense, I don’t see any superiority in this. You only have one Jeremy Lin while most of the other players are African Americans or Whites. Please don’t be inclined to think that none of us East Asians want to be sportsmen as well, as there are just as many who do, and they have to work very hard just to get to the default fitness level of those of other races.
Denying racial differences in itself is being racist. It’s like asking 1000 randomly sampled East Asians to go against 1000 randomly sampled Africans in the 100-meter run. Or a logical-spatial task derived from a standardized test. Just not fair.
#50 by admin on May 3, 2013 - 2:14 am
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Both Rushton and Jensen passed away recently. Research on race differences will be hampered by the PC police. New researchers with similar attitudes and results are unlikely to be hired or to get tenure.