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You are spouting racist pseudo-science. What evidence do you have that a particular group of people are genetically smarter than another group of people?
The idea that one race/group of people is inherently smarter than another group of people has been debunked time and time and time again. Any "evidence" you find that "proves" one race is superior to another in terms of intelligence is probably
1]false/misleading
2]at worse, can be explained by differences in educational systems, history, and other socio-economic factors.
I think the user gumby gave a more detailed explanation than me, I'm just here to say that you should stop propagating openly racist pseudo-science on HN.
It sounds like you have an irrational, faith-based belief in the absence of group differences. You’ve said that any evidence of their existence is probably bogus, which suggests that there isn’t any potential evidence that would change your mind. I started out not believing in the existence of group differences and changed my mind after looking at the evidence. Now I realize how silly it was for me to believe that groups with different ancestries differ only in superficial ways.
That doesn’t mean I hate any particular groups, or that I’m incapable of treating people as individuals.
It is clear that there are specific variances (e.g. albedo) which have had survival benefit in specific environments, but given that humans can reshape their environments so extensively and that in specific a human is a combination of genes + social interaction + managed environment it's pretty hard to imagine gross performance differences among groups in any meaningful metric that might somehow be entirely genetic. I am saying that
It's not like this issue hasn't been extensively studied either. It has been extremely difficult to find meaningful behavioural deltas that can be ascribed to genetics -- the other factors typically swamp them, so even if there were a signal always seems to be well below the noise floor.
Of course, it's possible that such evidence exists and we just lack the science and process to find it. But from what we know today, and even more so the more we learn about genomics and personal genomics, it is even less likely than would have been believed 50 years ago. I've probably got another 50 years in my lifespan and I seriously doubt the situation will change in that period.
Can you link to a meta-analysis or similar that supports your conclusion? I’ll read it with an open mind.
I would link to the studies I’ve read that support the opposite conclusion, but at this point I feel that I’d run the risk of being shadow-banned for linking to something that has been labeled—accurately or not—as “racist pseudoscience”.
You are spouting racist pseudo-science. What evidence do you have that a particular group of people are genetically smarter than another group of people?
The idea that one race/group of people is inherently smarter than another group of people has been debunked time and time and time again. Any "evidence" you find that "proves" one race is superior to another in terms of intelligence is probably
1]false/misleading
2]at worse, can be explained by differences in educational systems, history, and other socio-economic factors.
I think the user gumby gave a more detailed explanation than me, I'm just here to say that you should stop propagating openly racist pseudo-science on HN.