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[–]Bitch-Im-a-cow 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

fschmidt and others at s/depadealtright have argued with me about this in the past, normally in this sequence:

  1. Academic published a paper [with bad data] on slightly lower IQ of blacks

  2. What about Egyptians? Sub-Saharan African descendents.

  3. Therefore all blacks shouldn't be in the US [obviously a low IQ perspective, however]

  4. What's the plan? Top secret "alt right" plan [admission that there's no agreed plan]

  5. Any ideas? Deportation and extermination.

  6. All non-whites? Yes

  7. Including those with a non-white great-great-great-great-grandparent? Yes

  8. So, everyone? No - there are some Scandinavians who've never had non-white relatives.

  9. Ethno-states don't work and are impossible. Sure they do - look at Israel.

  10. Exactly: Israel's the perfect Nazi state

  11. Rinse, repeat

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Academic published a paper [with bad data] on slightly lower IQ of blacks

Yeah, there are some racist academics who tortured the data to produce papers like that. Still intelligence is highly heritable. We may find in the future that some groups of genetically related people have a higher average than others as some point in the future. But we're not there yet. On the other hand we do know that children of parents with very different genetics are taller, stronger and smarter than ones who's family tree doesn't branch.

[–]gloomy_bear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And the funny thing about IQ of Black's (if it is 85 on average) it's still average, just low average. Low average is like 85-94, mid average is 95-104 and high average is 105-115. Also, class has a lot to do with the IQ too. I'm lower-middle class and I did grow up low income for several years as well.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, class has a lot to do with the IQ too.

Yep. And not just having books and intellectual conversation around when growing up. There's also nutrition and pollutants ... especially heavy metals like lead and mercury.