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Originally Posted by ed_jaxon
I generally steer as far clear as I can from these ignorant arguments but as a would be scholar I am eager to have someone post a link to one of these studies.
I remember there was a scholar who posited that whites were inherently more intelligent than blacks roughly two years ago, but his research was almost universally panned and his methods were exposed as fraught with holes.
Currently I am taking a graduate course in Race, Ethnicity and Gender and reading at least two hundred pages per week on these topics so any research that supports the arguments either way should be offered.
Was that Doctor Watson who said that? It was panned because it's no longer Politically Correct to say that. In fact, it's taboo.
It was Dr. Watson but he was panned due to his shoddy work not so much for his point of view. People were shocked that a Nobel Laureate would step out with little evidence and much more of his personal biases. He was educated at University of Chicago, Indiana and Harvard before settling in NYC so his background led people to expect more.
I really don't think he was correct anyway. If there is a difference, it would probably be shown to be negligible as more and more black folks move into the middle class. You've got to remember that our ancestors faced conditions far more challenging than what we face today, Natural Selection alone would weed out many of the less intelligent people. If anything, we're ensuring an "idiocracy" with the norms of modern society.
You bring up a good point about socio-economic factors contributing to performance, but other factors such as institutional racism, inferior school funding based on the tax base and other factors also lead to poor performance.
The More intelligent and adaptable you are, the less likely you are to raise kids. But dumb/damaged folks tend to pop out a bunch of kids who in turn pop out a bunch of kids. There aren't mass starvations or plagues to select out most of these folks, and they just keep breeding...
