"Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians. Economic and cultural theories have failed to explain most of the pattern, and there's strong preliminary evidence that part of it is genetic. It's time to prepare for the possibility that equality of intelligence, in the sense of racial averages on tests, will turn out not to be true."Well, duh! I mean they ran James Watson (of Watson and Crick) out of town for making a relatively simple scientific and clearly observable point. Again, duh! We're not all the same. Extract all "nurture" (external stimulus) and we're--as humans--wildly different. Different colors, different, heights, different athletic abilities, and...well duh...different intellectually. And, yep, we can attribute many of these differences to groups.
- William Saletan
Why is that so hard to understand, people?
Here, read something, will ya?:
[clicky for Slate article]Deny it all you want, but there is evolution, there are IQ differences among groups and individuals, and there is death. It's not a bad thing. In fact, once accepted as reality, we can then move onward in an intelligent, peaceful manner.
