Why Blacks Average IQ is 15 Points Below Whites

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This post and the comments are among the reasons that Saidit will continue to be ridiculed as a place for incredibly dumb people. This topic has also been discussed extensively in DAR, using research from one incredibly racist academic who didn't bother to provide the appropriate evidence for his research. The scholars here on Saidit think they know how to test and identify intelligence, and that they have a grasp of world history. What's happened here is an analysis that has no basis in types of intelligence, or history, or genetics. Yes, you can say that this is just your opinion. But you and others seem to think you are discussing facts.

[–]MagicMike[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Smart people leave ghettos if they can. The people left behind are too low IQ to leave the ghetto.

How is that in any way disputable? Who here wants to live in a ghetto?

[–]choppedlettuce 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

IQ arguably measures one type of intelligence. It's a completely meaningless measure of overall ability. Lastly, you don't even distinguish between inherited ability and learned ability. Hard to say how much of one's "intelligence" was hereditary and how much was due to nurture. There's a lot of hidden assumptions in your original post that you don't address at all because I think you lack the will/ability to think deeply about this topic.

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

This is complete BS. IQ is the measure that correlates the most with success in life. Now, which ethnic groups in America have the highest tested IQ? Ashkenazi Jews, then East Asians, then Whites. Afroamericans get the lowest scores. As to life outcomes, I guess we all also know what the picture is.

[–]choppedlettuce 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

MOST correlates? Show me a source. I'm sure it does correlate strongly, but I doubt that it MOST correlates.