Nice catch Edvard, I actually saw that thought yesterday after I wrote the post and was going to correct it but then got up to do something and forgot about it. Thanks eagle eyes!
It's been corrected*
To the attention whore and any attention whore from this point on: I am not going to address your post unless it has content in it.
Inquirer:
"You don't do that though, do you? All I see are claims of you being a realist and that white people are smarter (are you white, Toby?), but no proofs or links to back them up." I already made my point and ironically enough you even address it later on. If you want links then google or other internet search engine is your friend. I am not here to educate people or to write a scientific review. It is honestly not that hard to find information. I can make an exception on you since you actually managed to address my post:
http://glpiggy.net/2013/03/19/a-sociologist-looks-at-race-differences-in-sat-scores/
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/04/26/9530.aspx
And if you have a uni VPN you can read these too:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/17/10/921.extract#
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/17/5/532/
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&uid=2005-03637-001
Also (National Review, December 5, 1994, 48-50), (Clark, E. A., & Hanisee, J. (1982). Intellectual and adaptive performance of Asian children in adoptive American settings. Developmental Psychology, 18, 595–599.)
I am not going to tell you the color of my skin because it is not politically correct to take note of it. If you want to base your arguments on ethos and pathos instead of logos then go ahead but I wont help you. I can help you a bit and tell you the answer to the two next obvious questions that every dimwit asks me: I have not gotten beat up by black people and I did not grow up in an environment with no black people.
"Why would there be a genetic difference affecting intelligence between races? For example, having dark pigmentation is a natural protection against the strong and damaging sun rays at the equator." Why would an ape be dumber than human? The question is meaningless. It is what it is. I think it would be more surprising if all races that developed completely separately from each other had the exact same level of intelligence.
"How do you define intelligence? By IQ-tests? IQ-tests do only measure a specific subset of skills that we, in the western world, have deemed to represent "intelligence". It's basically subjective, so I'm wondering." Intelligence actually has a known definition. You can look it up. It does not equal IQ tests but the fact is that IQ tests simply are among the widest used and currently the highest regarded test out there to measure intelligence.If you accept no means of measuring intelligence then you might as well say that apes are as intelligent as humans are and then use your argument.
We use the methods of measuring available to us currently. If you can not accept that then there is little point in discussing further.
"In your quote, how did they adjust for environmental exposures? Simply ignoring geographical location is not the same as cancelling out the effect of geography or demography." There are studies of different races vs adoption, different races vs geography, different races vs family income among others. All of these indicate that black people are less intelligent than white people. If you're interested get these. They should be available from your uni's e-library:
(Clark, E. A., & Hanisee, J. (1982). Intellectual and adaptiveperformance of Asian children in adoptive American settings.Developmental Psychology, 18, 595–599.)
(Frydman, M., & Lynn, R. (1989). The intelligence of Korean childrenadopted in Belgium. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 1323–1325.)
(Winick, M., Meyer, K. K., & Harris, R. C. (1975). Malnutrition andenvironmental enrichment by early adoption. Science, 190, 1173–1175.)
"To the attention whore and any attention whore "
and then you went and did this:
"Inquirer:
"You don't do that though, do you? All I see are claims of you being a realist and that white people are smarter (are you white, Toby?), but no proofs or links to back them up." I already made my point and ironically enough you even address it later on. If you want links then google or other internet search engine is your friend. I am not here to educate people or to write a scientific review. It is honestly not that hard to find information. I can make an exception on you since you actually managed to address my post:
http://glpiggy.net/2013/03/19/a-sociologist-looks-at-race-differences-in-sat-scores/
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/04/26/9530.aspx
And if you have a uni VPN you can read these too:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/17/10/921.extract#
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/17/5/532/
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&uid=2005-03637-001
Also (National Review, December 5, 1994, 48-50), (Clark, E. A., & Hanisee, J. (1982). Intellectual and adaptive performance of Asian children in adoptive American settings. Developmental Psychology, 18, 595–599.)
I am not going to tell you the color of my skin because it is not politically correct to take note of it. If you want to base your arguments on ethos and pathos instead of logos then go ahead but I wont help you. I can help you a bit and tell you the answer to the two next obvious questions that every dimwit asks me: I have not gotten beat up by black people and I did not grow up in an environment with no black people.
"Why would there be a genetic difference affecting intelligence between races? For example, having dark pigmentation is a natural protection against the strong and damaging sun rays at the equator." Why would an ape be dumber than human? The question is meaningless. It is what it is. I think it would be more surprising if all races that developed completely separately from each other had the exact same level of intelligence.
"How do you define intelligence? By IQ-tests? IQ-tests do only measure a specific subset of skills that we, in the western world, have deemed to represent "intelligence". It's basically subjective, so I'm wondering." Intelligence actually has a known definition. You can look it up. It does not equal IQ tests but the fact is that IQ tests simply are among the widest used and currently the highest regarded test out there to measure intelligence.If you accept no means of measuring intelligence then you might as well say that apes are as intelligent as humans are and then use your argument.
We use the methods of measuring available to us currently. If you can not accept that then there is little point in discussing further.
"In your quote, how did they adjust for environmental exposures? Simply ignoring geographical location is not the same as cancelling out the effect of geography or demography." There are studies of different races vs adoption, different races vs geography, different races vs family income among others. All of these indicate that black people are less intelligent than white people. If you're interested get these. They should be available from your uni's e-library.
(Clark, E. A., & Hanisee, J. (1982). Intellectual and adaptiveperformance of Asian children in adoptive American settings.Developmental Psychology, 18, 595–599.)
(Frydman, M., & Lynn, R. (1989). The intelligence of Korean childrenadopted in Belgium. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 1323–1325.)
(Winick, M., Meyer, K. K., & Harris, R. C. (1975). Malnutrition andenvironmental enrichment by early adoption. Science, 190, 1173–1175.)"
H o l y S h i t... takes one to know one, right?