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<p>If anything that link was in support of genetics being the defining factor. I also stated that for IQ, genetics account for about 75% of an individual’s general intelligence (from the “Minnesota Twins study of Twins reared apart”). Your link actually somewhat agrees with that:</p>
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<p>I think their value is a little high because there are some hidden variables but it’s unimportant for me to discuss them. Also, regression to the mean is important as mentioned in your article.</p>
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<p>No IQ is usually only impacted through nutrition and a very very small amount by some other factors like the ones you discuss. Academic performance is surely affected by culture though, so I’m not denying that. bUt what you must understand about culture and genetics is that they play off one another. For example, a family of short,unathletic people aren’t going to encourage their chidlren to try out for the football team. Jews and Asians encourage education simply because they excel at it. Blacks encourage athletics because they excel at that.</p>
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<p>That was my quote above and here’s the important implication which you miss. I don’t care how much you encourage education, a Nobel Prize can only be won by a genius individual. The fact that Jews constitute such a huge portion of Nobel prizes winners speaks to their average mean being much higher than other ethnicities. All populations have intelligence as a Bell Curve, but not all have the same mean (as evidenced by my link). If an ethnicity’s mean is very high (like the Jews), the right tail of that population’s normal distribution will be much higher. Thus, there will be much greater numbers of people at that genuis level where Nobel Prize winners come from. Nobel Prize winners speaks to not just academic acheivement, but innate genuis that culture can’t make up for.</p>
<p>The translation of the Bell Curve is the same reason why almost 100% of the greatest basketball players are of West African descent.</p>
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<p>I consulted literature on this and you’re exactly right. Veyr low African IQ’s (relative to black americans) is mostly due to malnurtition. So one can assume that given the proper nurtition to adequately develop their brains, the average African IQ’s would be raised substantiallu (probably on par with blacks in america). </p>
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<p>All your analysis about the dichomotmy between Ash Jews and Seph Jews is erroneous because you miss one key piint. Biologists consider Seph Jews and Ash Jews to be two completely different ethnicities. That’s why Sephs look Arab or Midle Eastern and that’s why Ash look more European. In fact, in Israel, there’s much conflict between the two groups. So they have different genetics and my analysis is apt.</p>
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<p>Yet even through civil rights, affirmative action, and the creation of a sizable black middle classs, the black-white disparity has stayed almost entitely constant at 15 IQ points or 1 SD. Here’s a link abut it: It’s a really long article and I’m only provided the link to show I’m not making this quote up:</p>
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<p>[A</a> Tail of the Bell Curve: The Politics of Mental Retardation](<a href=“http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/■■■■■■.htm]A”>A Tail of the Bell Curve: The Politics of Mental Retardation)</p>
<p>And finally you keep ignoring the culture of poor whites. Black urban culture is an outgrowth of poor white Southern culture (the grammar, religious fervor, disdain for education and social mobility, etc. ) Thomas Sowell wrote a great book about it. So poor whites are the offspring of blue collar people, mill workers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc. These people live in small hick towns (or enclaves of other blue collar workers) where they have horrible educational systems (or in largely black neighborhoods in inner cities and attend all-black schools like Eminem). They have no role models and education is not valued. Yet, they have higher acheivement that middle and upper class blacks who surely must have a better environment. You claim maybe even these black families don’t value education (which I find hard ot believe that white-collar workers don’t encourage academic acheivement), yet surely the poor whites have a much much worse environment and culture. So please how do you explain the disparity?!?!?!</p>