IQ differences by race in the US.
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The asian parenting style REALLY helps early IQ development in their kids compared to the not as involved method a lot of western parent have.
But damn that difference between American blacks and any other black people on earth. Really showing where the root of the problem is and it isn't skin colour..
Adult IQ is extremely heritable (most of the variance in adult IQ is caused by genetics). Parenting style is basically meaningless for IQ unless you are beating your children or your home is illiterate. Blacks in the U.S. have precisely the IQ you would predict based on their mix of white and african genes (african IQ is lower than american black IQ, the '57' black africans in this chart is skewed because african immigrants to the U.S. are more likely to have higher IQ, look up Richard Lynn).
This is social "science", it really doesn't matter what they claim to say. Genetic can affect processing speed, memory capacity and things like that but intelligence, as understood in common language, is all about your capacity to solve problems. The more problems you can solve, the more intelligent you are. For this, I consider answering a knowledge question a problem (what's the speed of light for example). The most important thing to solve problems are STRATEGY first then number of accumulated fact + practice. This can come from parenting but it's really about being exposed to the right things and a grind mentality. Specifically, math and computer science gives you problem solving strategies applicable to anything.. and what do Asians have in common?.. Look, imagine 2 computers. One has the latest tech. The other is last gen but only slightly slower than the newer one. You run a horribly coded program on the fast computer but a perfectly coded program on the slow computer. What happens? Which PC complete the program first? Because the difference in computing power is only slightly different, it's safe to assume that the slow PC complete first.
Also another thing.. if it's extremely heritable, why can you train for it? Anyone can join faggot Mensa by practicing the IQ style of questions. That means that there is a way to increase IQ through knowledge. It is then plausible that certain types of knowledge have overlap with what you need to ace IQ tests (math and CS stuff)...
except iq tests no longer test about knowledge but wordless abstracts and spatial/sequence reasonings. sure there are tricks you can learn to improve your reasoning skills in solving these problems but that kind of study would be beyond the level of undergraduate studies and inaccessible to the general population, basically people who study these theories and can hope to squeeze out couple more points are already very intelligent in the first place. you can't teach tricks to improve iq to someone who lacked the capacity to imagine "how would you feel if you haven't had breakfast this morning?"
there exist hardware limitations, a person with downs syndrome will never be able to understand quantum physics no matter how hard you try to teach him.
instead of rambling like an autist, why don't you just take a look at the actual iq test questions and see if you can put into words about how to solve these problems logically and consistently so that an average person can understand and apply the theories.
I know it's abstract. When I said "knowledge question", I wasn't referring to the questions in the IQ tests but I was completing my definition of "problem". So don't be a nigger and talk shit if you can't read nor deduce that I already addressed your hardware point indirectly.
I'll make it easier for you: It's a fact that you can practice IQ questions (yes, the abstract ones) to significantly raise your score, but that doesn't make you more intelligent. This means that there's a big flaw in this test to controll for non-hereditary factors.
Here's another one: practicing math and CS leads to higher IQ scores. Not to the extent of practicing the IQ questions themselves but still significant improvements.
Here's one last: Asians spend significantly more time practicing math and CS than other races.
Considering the last 3 points, can it be plausible that the reason why they have a larger IQ score is because they spend more time practicing something that may help them solve IQ questions and not necessarily because they possess any biological advantage?