Perhaps the cotton industry will be next. No more 100% cotton T-shirts. How will the bar stay on my back while I squat?
If you don't understand that there's far more variance within an "ethnicity" group from those studies than between the groups, then yeah. You missed the point.
Did you know that Africa is also the most genetically diverse continent? Oh, and I have stupid people in my family. And smart people. Weird, that...
You know what else? I've known a lot of people in my life, and I'll coexist with stupid nice person over a smart asshole any day of the week.
Perhaps the cotton industry will be next. No more 100% cotton T-shirts. How will the bar stay on my back while I squat?
Yes, I've heard your liberal trope about variance within an "ethnicity" group. It's meaningless. Comparing the variance between groups uses the average of said groups, while the variance within a group uses every member. The distribution curves overlap.
Do you think that I'm so simplistic in my thinking that I don't realize that traits exist on a spectrum within a group? Do you take offense when someone claims that men are stronger than women?
The problem with stupid people is that we live within a social structure where they have control over how I live my life. They can vote. And in my experience, they are far more likely to vote for piss poor policies/representatives than those of a higher intellect.
If we don't allow ourselves to accept that their are certain important differences between populations (like IQ) because it might hurt someones feelings, we cannot properly explain why these populations have different outcomes.
Oh fuck.
What would be your opinion on the statement: "Men are genetically superior athletes to women"?
How about the statement: "There are more male geniuses than female geniuses, but there are also more male retards than female retards"?
Or "gender is a social construct"?
Nearly all of us have friends of all races and have known intelligent individuals of all races. The question is accretive and probabalistic; it is not binary or deterministic.
At this point, I have been lied to so much in my life that I feel highly obligated to ask the questions I was told not to ask.
Once again, no response necessary. These are just questions to be considered.
Relax, David, with your passive aggressive "idiots" and "assholes.". The whole of American culture, MSM, and institutions supports your opinion on the lack of correlation between race and anything other than skin pigmentation.
You've simply found one of the few places left where people can at least openly debate the topic without fear of being called an -IST (!), and someone it seems that is causing you to feel threatened about the opinions that you hold (or you can explain better than me how thinking differently about race makes one an idiot, in your opinion).
No need for us to break it down, as others already have. The human genome project has been underway for 20 years and as a whole has failed to connect the lines between genes, expressed proteins, and disease. The entire scientific community has accepted the fact that we don't have the ability to go from genome to phenotype expect in a few examples. That's just the way it is, that is the current state of the science. Bioinformaticians continue to churn through billions of DNA sequences, attempting to dig out some correlations. And of course they look at different ethnicities since this can be issue an issue in clinical trials. There's a lot of money to be made. But it just doesn't work well (or at all)...and this is looking for simple things, like correlations to heart disease, alzheimers, or certain kinds of cancer.
The Bell Curve is based on IQ tests, which no one (expect you it seems) believes is an accurate measure of intelligence when testing across widely different economic and social groups. There isn't a trusted method of measuring intelligence which isn't polluted with environmental factors. That's why you need to dump your reliance on such tests, and go straight to genome-proteins-phenotypes. But that connection is too complex and isn't understand.
Regarding dogs. Yes, you could breed humans. We all know this. But the different ethnicities weren't purposefully 'bred' towards a certain phenotype. There has been evolutionary pressure, but we have no clue if that made some groups more 'intelligent' than others. It could have, but how would you measure it anyways, you can't strip away the environmental factors.
And back to dogs. You can sequence the parent's genome, and x-ray them...but you still won't know if your labrador (or shepard) will have hip dysplasia. Breeders can't even figure out how to predict that, and that's WITH DNA testing the parents. And dyslpasia is easy to diagnose, and dogs are purposefully bred, and you can breed through many generations quickly in a controlled manner. Its not simple stuff.
And back to the Bell Curve again. This is a purely correlational study. That's another red flag. This is not proven, accepted stuff, at all.
It’s extremely unfortunate this country is now at odds with American History.
Trying to rewrite history is not needed.
The current situation between Virus and Riots aka Protest is a political stunt to spin the narrative.
Obviously something is going on with the Virus?
Mark has mentioned that in his city Whitcha Falls Texas hospitals where sitting idle? No patients?
Yet the state of Texas is on alert at the moment with Houston as a hotbed of spikes.
What do you guys make of the current recent Huge Spikes ?