Posted on 03/05/2018 6:12:53 PM PST by The people have spoken
List those 3 to 10.
The basic 3... whites, blacks, asians.
The basic 10... Aussie aboriginals. sub-Saharan peoples. Semitic peoples...
It’s late, but I’m sure you get the picture.
Your article actually supports me more than it does you. It cites an article and seems to misquote it. It stated that 50% of intelligence is from genes. The article it links to only says "the percentage of the variation in intelligence accounted for by genetic causes is usually given at about 50%." In other words, this is just a common estimate, and the possibility that scientists expect to find even more genes related to intelligence is left open. It then states: "Heritability estimates for young children are typically lower, whereas estimates for adults are higher (up to 70–80%)." There's my 80%. The article also mentions adoption and twins studies, which supports me, as well as stating that IQ tests are generally stable from childhood to adulthood: "For example, when the same intelligence test is taken at age 11 years and repeated at almost 80, about half of the variance is stable."
Which is a big problem for the "Education and wealth determines IQ," though the article admittedly suggests that there is a correlation between wealth and IQ (but the real correlation is that smart people tend to get high paying jobs, not that they have better access to education or food that gives them a high IQ score).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213008440
You can’t be this uninformed or blind.
Just like every dog owner knows some dogs are smart, like Jack Russell Terriers, some dogs are really stupid, eat garbage and roll in poo. There are some parallels between different dog breeds and different human groups (races?, breeds?, subspecies?). China, India, Middle East, and Europe had ancient vibrant civilizations whose peoples still exist. Some places in the world seem to have had no civilization, or no evidence of any past civilization remaining. I think a reasonable person can draw some conclusions from that. Is that being prejudiced? Yes. Is it unwarranted? No.
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