>> Larry wrote: >> >> Frankly a plague on both houses. > >It seems like asking if genetics have an impact on intelligence is a >reasonable one.
Of course it does but race doesn't. The heritability index is over .45 (the portion of the variation in scores that can be accounted for by heredity is over 45%). > >If that's reasonable, then it's reasonable to ask about correlated traits. > >If that's reasonable, then it's reasonable to ask about causation. > >But you usually get called a bigot for asking the first question. > >Which just means that humanity isn't yet mature enough to ask about >basic questions governing its biological mechanisms. At what point does your so called reasonableness becomes racism? Its a very short leap from your so-called reasonableness to stating that we should investigate whether blacks are less intelligent, because everyone knows its such. Thing is that unless you disentangle SES from the equation you cannot say that intelligence is racially based at all. The statistical models cannot disentangle the two. Moreover I think I mentioned that while yes you can study so called racial differences, the data is quite clear- there is far more variation within ethnic and so-called racial groups than there are between the different groups. Given that variation, its just intellectual masturabation, it may feel good, but its eventually quite useless and the end result is quite messy. But hey whatever gets you through the night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:289514 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
