Africans-less-intelligent?
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- PIITB
Has anybody heard about this? My roommate just told me about it so I looked it up. This is some fucked up shit.
- Llyod0
if you don't have any schools you're not going to have kids who perform well on iq tests
- I believe hes talking about all africans. heres a quote, He said there was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true".PIITB
- equal but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true".PIITB
- oh yeah now I remember this guyLlyod
- PIITB0
seems like hes a bit of a homophobe too.
"In 1997, he told a British newspaper that a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual."
- ctcliff0
Fucked up for some journalist to attack a nobel prize winning geneticist?
- ctcliff0
By that I mean,
How naively condescending is it to attack someone who's life's work is probably worth more to humanity than that of any civil rights campaigner, social worker, journalist or QBN'er.
- ismith0
I only skimmed the article, but I honestly wouldn't doubt that there could be some truth to what he's saying (not that there is necessarily, but could be) since after all genes to determine basically everything about us including skin color, why not intelligence? Plus you have to remember that this all refers to our starting point, not our overall intelligence after a length of time. So his hypothesis could be reached if you presume that the test only studies one type of intelligence, for instance one that caucasians happen to be commonly conditioned to.
- epete220
i dont know if its true but if it is it may be because the amount of protein we eat?
- surfito0
i think the way we are measuring intelligence is the wrong one.
- jfletcher0
I remember the Bell Curve issue and how so many people were angry. What I don't get is if someone says "Asian people are smarter than white people", I'd say, sure.... It seems they certainly work their ass off, and you see asian prodigys all the time, so why couldn't you reason black people weren't as smart as white people? When you say that people go crazy like you hate black people, which isnt' true. As ismith mentioned, it's a starting point. I've worked with really smart black people, and really dumb white poeple... I don't know why this causes so much anger. To dismiss it as pure racism seems to be ignorant and blind to the argument itself. If you want to debate, look at the research and debate, but don't dismiss just because you don't like it.
There is also a note that says black people have high sex drives... but I'm not insulted. It's just data to take in and think about.
- hedge0
Is Watson's claim really so preposterous considering how advanced modern Western societies are in comparison to relatively primitive societies like Africa? With technological and scientific evolution must come some genetic progression.
- Hedge, I actually find logic and reason with your statement.organic_grid
- < Wow... the Bush regime must be coming to an end, we actually agree on something...organic_grid
- Hah.
;-)hedge - Your actually starting to grow on me...organic_grid
- please, just don't "grow" on each other in this thread. take that to the NSFW threadPoint5
- omg, could I agree with hedge twince in 1 day??jfletcher
- Doesn't make much sense actually, because most of the black population was here in America for all of that progress.ukit
- Muslim Africa was far more technically advanced than europe during the dark ages (and egypt/mesopotamian eras)monNom
- I doubt intelligence varied much during those times.monNom
- progress is fakecapsize
- roger840
maybe less intelligents but, they have other parts of their body more developed.
Be carefull PIITB
- Point50
So really, what is the measure of intelligence? I notice it mentioned "reasoning" but even that will be different across cultures, no? Test the intelligence of a person raised in an established education system and who works with advanced technology 5 days with the idea to create financial stability, then do the same with a person who is raised in an established family/tribe role and works with primitive technology whose goal is to feed themselves and their family at least once a day. I'm sure there will be more than just intelligence that will measure differently.
Also, I read that article and made "intelligent" debate out of it... but I only read half of it so I guess idea that blacks are lazy is true.
*goes back to my awesome sex drive
- organic_grid0
We should all learn to celebrate and embrace each others cultural & educational differences, the last time a checked, we all shared this planet together... as one!
- hedge0
I find Jared Diamond's research and explanations for social inequity are pretty interesting {Guns, Germs, Steel). His case study on native New Guineans shows that, given their limited resources, they really don't lack any ingenuity.
All societies are victims/beneficiaries of circumstance to some extent, I suppose.
- jfletcher0
If anyone is interested on a good talk on education (not about race), Sir Ken Robinson delivered a great talk at TED about current educations systems and their failures.... it was brilliant!
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- ok, wtf... I used to use that YouTube embed link and it worked... why did that change?jfletcher
- jfletcher0
Here is the link -
- oh, so now I post the link, but not the embed code.... ok, got it now.jfletcher
- TED talks always ruin my day for the better... meaning, once I get started on them I just realize how much there is to learn stillPoint5
- STUPID SAFARI CRAP! It expanded this note window as I typed, thus I couldn't tell if I was over the limit or notPoint5
- Stupid safari crap?jfletcher
- watched this video long time ago. and loved it.pango
- Brilliantorganic_grid
- ukit0
Since so many of you seem willing to buy this argument, consider the following...if you compared Western society in the 1300s or 1400s to Arabic society using Watson's criteria...you would be forced to come to the conclusion that Arabs were intellectually superior to whites.
Arabic societies at that time were more advanced in almost every way to white societies, which were mostly ignorant and ravaged by famine and disease. Most of the technological innovation, as well as the military power, came out of the Arab world. In other words, shit changes and the dominant society of today will not be the one of tomorrow. We are already seeing a shift with the relative decline of the West and the ascent of China and India.
- I could buy than many poeple are smarter than white people. Power doesn't mean intelligence.jfletcher
- My point is, if you looked at an average European during that time, they would probably have seemed pretty dumbukit
- Whereas today, you're average Westerner is probably better educated. So there's a good argument that a lot of this is dependent on the overall state and resources of a society rather than set in stoneukit
- dependent on the overall state and resources of a society rather than set in stoneukit
- +1Glitterati_Duane
- organic_grid0
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Download the full episode for a reality check...
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- jfletcher0
To Point5's comment - agree, good point. To that point I wouldn't last long if I was dropped down in many tribes in Africa because I'm so used to my house and electricity and things I take for granted. So you have an "intelligent" person like me, totally fucked in an environment where people we would call stupid live every day. I wonder how many researchers define intelligence....
and...damn my lower sex drive!!