#79 | Posted by gl0bal74 at 2009-06-03 06:40 PM
Got it Johnson. You're a white supremacist idiot that truly believes the colour of ones skin determines IQ
I'm hoping that you're not black, 174, as your lack of comprehension would probably lower the average, not only for blacks but for any group of which you might be a member.
Although I recognize that this might be an exercise in futility as you probably lack the ability to understand, I'll try to provide you with a simplified explanation of a matter that you don't seem to get.
No one said that skin color is a determinative of intelligence. There are ranges of intelligence within groups. There are ranges of other attributes within groups.
All of the sprint records are held by people of West African descent. For some reason the genes of those people mutated in such a way as to confer the ability to run faster.
People clustered in different rarefied air regions developed different mechanisms to cope with the situation. In the Himalyan Highlands one mechanism developed. In the Andes another evolved. These are adaptations that enable people living under such conditions to function better.
People living in malaria ridden areas developed and maintained a sickle cell mutation that provided them with immunity from that pervasive malady. Unfortunately if that gene were inherited from both parents, then instead of being advantageous, it resulted in debilitating and deadly sickle cell anemia.
People clustered in different areas undergo the speciation process which operates cumulatively. Certain African groups, Bushmen and pygmies, have an average IQ of 60. Their ability to solve problems encountered in a technological and scientifically based society is limited. Other groups of Africans suffer similar limitations although they are not as severe. If you review the data describing school performance of people of African descent, you will find that statistically, they fall behind whites and Asians. Even in D.C., which provides extraordinarily costly education, some $15,000 per child, and a 15.2 to 1 teacher ratio, performance of blacks is poor. That doesn't mean that individual blacks may not be extraordinarily accomplished, but the average is there. I judge people in general, including blacks, on my observation of their accomplishment rather than on a stereotypical basis that evaluates them as a member of a group.
I'll stop here. You can engage in all sorts of convoluted reasoning in an attempt to avoid the conclusions that use of Occam's Razor, produce.
I recognize that you've been conditioned to dispute the occurrence of differences between and among groups, and that you are emotionally bound by those beliefs, so I am not anticipating that you are able to pierce the veil and observe empirical reality. You seem to be an indoctrinated ideologue, so just go about your business. You may not get the distinction between "the colour of one's skin determines IQ" and the rationale that I have submitted, but unfortunately, that's your loss. By the way, you use the English spelling of colour. Are you "from around here?"