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Average IQ is fixed for a race. The fact that intelligent people can be educated does not mean you can educate people into being intelligent.
Genetic groups are fixed now. In a generation, they can shift, but you're born with the same genes you die with, and if you weren't born with the genes that allow you to plan for the future, retain information, or hold a lot of data points in working memory, you aren't going to improve beyond those limits.
For those who lack the genes of success, the memes of success are doubly important, but one of the key features of successful genes is a predisposition to adhering to successful memes.
It's a mountain to climb, but acknowledging it's there is the only way to start up the slope.
Not IQ. Average IQ. This keeps eluding you.
Human races clearly exist. You can identify them visually. Trying real hard to ignore this is the social construct. You are taught to do that, and you can identify when and where you were taught to do that.
Please explain why there are no Baboon rocket scientists.
purely socioeconomic factors.
Democrat policies from the 60s
You are retarded. Do not put words in my mouth.
I meant baboon, Papio papio, a member of the family Cercopithecidae.
Why are there no baboon rocket scientist?
Systemic oppression, clearly.
The differences in IQ between races in America are maintained even among adopted children. And no, I don't think it's because white parents who adopt a black baby are secretly racist and treat their black child poorly.
The problem is that modern black Americans who are the descendants of slaves underwent several selection processes that do not favor IQ. First, they're mostly from central Africa, which is warm. You don't have to plan for the winter, so long term planning is never selected for. Second, they were captured and enslaved by other tribes in Africa, so they're the worst of that bunch, either in terms of social capital or organization or combat technology. Third, they had a harsh voyage and physically demanding existence as slaves, which selects for heartiness over intelligence. Fourth, there was possibly a selection process in the breeding of slaves, selecting only the strongest and dumbest - I'm not sure if this is true and it's not an allowed question in polite society since the answer is either "yes, blacks are genetically damaged", or "no, slave owners weren't that cruel".
Another problem is that melanin directly causes aggression. As in, if you take an animal and inject it with melanin, it will become more aggressive. This is obvious if you look at the coloring of all domesticated animals, which are only bred for docility. Even among breeds of dog - there are no golden rottweilers.
The differences are genetic. To get equality with meritocracy, you would need to roll out large scale a gene therapy program, and one of the side effects of that would be that everyone would end up with lighter skin.
This is not a particularly American problem.
The average IQ of blacks is much lower in Africa, mostly in the 60s, but in some countries in the 40s. In places where there is ample nutrition and education it's in the low 80s, whether that's Alabama, Stockholm, or Tokyo.
So no, there's nothing special about the slaves. Evolution takes much longer than a few generations, and e.g. recessive genes and epigenetics make sure that you can't just selects for traits in a few generations by artificial means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption_Study
Lefty source even. It's funny, you can tell everything you need to know by the conspicuous omission of the 1976 results from the introductory paragraph.
They likely are. Using my same reasoning process about selection pressure, the jews have had no homeland for most of their existence. They've existed by infiltrating and manipulating other cultures, living off of them parasitically. Being found out or expelled from the host society leads to great suffering and death for them. That puts a huge selection pressure on the ability to manipulate and maintain a complex network of lies. That takes intelligence. It also leads to elevated neurotic behavior and psychological illness, which has been medically documented amongst the jews.
I try not to avoid the truth just because there are unfortunate conclusions.
Most of the difference is located in verbal intelligence, which supports your hypothesis.
This is a continued failure of understanding statistics that undermines this point everytime someone tries to make it. Correlation is not causation. Neither is your sample size controlled enough to be remotely saying anything you want it to say. IQ isn't the only factor in these people's success. Not by a long shot, as dozens of things are influencing them both upwards and downwards beyond just their capability to learn.
More importantly, you can be successful without a high IQ. You don't need 140 IQ to be a 6 figure making success story. You just need a good enough one to not be a dribbling retard.
A guy with a mid level 100 IQ can with significant luck and effort become a doctor, which is almost certainly the case with those fresh off the boat Asians. Not often, but perfectly capable. But I'd guess you only remember the success stories and not the Asians who didn't achieve any of that and thereby don't stick out in your mind.
IQ can't really be improved in your lifetime, its mostly genetic. What can improve is your capability to wield it. Like everything else in life, you practice with the thing you want to be good with and magically you get good at using it. A guy with an average IQ might not ever reach the mega heights of a Prodigal 150 IQ Master, but he has a good chance of going further than they guy by becoming incredibly proficient at using his 100 IQ to its fullest, while the Prodigy could end up a bum by never making any real use of that 150 (and go around asking a bunch of former "Gifted" kids how often that burnout happens, because its the norm).
Discovering that academic success is ultimately meaningless and the world is a horrifyingly cruel place is a difficult mountain to climb for the 115-130 bracket.
I think worse than discovering that academic success is meaningless, is discovering that the journey of it is the only real value. As in, learning the skills, discipline and personality necessary to become moderately academically successful which are then easily transcribed to adulthood and working life.
So for those at the 130 area and above they not only got the useless prize, they also accidentally skipped the entire purpose and screwed themselves into a much worse place than someone at the 100-110 range.
No.
Intelligence has the same heritability as height.
I absolutely do not understand the friction with some people in accepting this common sense proposition. You shouldn't even have to back it up with research - it's such an obvious and basic assertion. Yet it's offensive to the degree that he (or someone) actually downvoted your comment. Why? Like I can get some debate over the "IQ" metric itself and it's applicability to real life, or not wanting to paint entire racial groups of people in broad strokes as inferior, but "Intelligence is genetic" is controversial? "Intelligence isn't measurable"? How? Evolution stops at the neck? Do these people live in the real world?
I don't want to put abra_dacabra down but I feel like he's not genuinely invested in this argument so much that he's stubbornly fortifying this metaphysical / ideological position for political purposes. "Don't let the stormfags gain one step or they'll take over the forum and hurt the conservative movement!" I must applaud his perseverance.
It's remarkable. You only need to leave the house for 5 minutes to realize that there are massive differences in intelligence between humans. That this is somehow controversial is incredible. It's just evidence of how unfathomably strong the social programming is for the majority of people. There is no other emperor as naked as this one.
And it isn't even related to stormfaggotry. It's just truth. A state of nature. Like, you can take this fact and go full commie and demand more handouts to blacks bc they can't compete on equal terms. It's not like we're saying blacks are low IQ therefore fire up the chambers. If anything, it's that blacks will underperform for as long as you fail to take this into account and plan for it, e.g. with special needs classes that teach impulse control and delaying gratification rather than gender studies and crt. The irony is that the blindfold position on intelligence does more to harm low IQ populations than pretty much any other social conviction.
Read this you dumb fuck, and keep your fucking mouth shut about things you clearly have not researched.
Heritability of IQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
Or read some studies, you'll find plenty, like this one:
Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/
Heritability of height is also about 80% -> https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/traits/height/#:~:text=Scientists%20estimate%20that%20about%2080,height%20are%20only%20partially%20understood.