Is this study accurate?

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[–]WaltzRoommate 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

France has a universal military conscription as a condition of citizenship though.

Conscription doesn't mean you automatically pass basic training.

What about Jensen suggesting heterosis played a part in enhancing the mulatto IQ? Do you feel he's completely wrong and it did not enhance it at all or that it's fairly insignificant and added at best around 1-2 points on average?

There's not a whole lot of evidence for heterosis and there's a competing hypothesis that it makes offspring worse. Ryan Faulk made a video going over it.

If I were to speculate, I'd speculate that the reason it seems plausible to people is due to assorted mating. If you're a black man with a white woman, you're probably the top tier of black men and so your children are going to test better than they would if you just average the two groups together.

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

Ryan Faulk made a video going over it.

I believe you already sent me it on Reddit.

If you're a black man with a white woman, you're probably the top tier of black men and so your children are going to test better than they would if you just average the two groups together.

This is probably negated by the fact that the average black also only gets among the lowest quality white women.

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

This is probably negated by the fact that the average black also only gets among the lowest quality white women.

Honestly, it's probably not, at least not fully so. Very few white women sink below the level of black women. I'm not saying those kids will be 100 IQ on average, but their kids will probably be higher than what you'd expect just from averaging the two populations together.

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

Conscription doesn't mean you automatically pass basic training.

People can essentially play dumb and get out of the mandatory conscription then? Does it actually work like that in France?

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

I'm not an expert on France, but I know it works like that in the US because certain famous individuals got out of the draft for being incompetent before those individuals were famous. Both Jerry Garcia and Jimi Hendrix were drafted but let out due to failure to adapt. America was a more patriotic place in the 1960s and while what gets passed down through the ages is draft card burning hippie protests, most people probably just do what the government says and take pride in it.