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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's assume Murray et al.are right and Blacks really are a deviation lower in IQ than Whites. How does this justify any of the institutionalized racism out there? We know full damn well its not being done "for their own good" as witnessed by the harassment of wealthy and/or intelligent Blacks, and why should we give some White idiot a greater benefit of the doubt than an intelligent Black?[/quote]

As an economic progressive, the cognitive difference is precisely why I fervently support redistribution to those who are not as gifted. Murray, richwine, etc only strengthens my views on helpful economic redistribution.

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As I understand it (being in a related field), The Bell Curve was extremely controversial when published.  Many critics charge that the authors go beyond the data in their assertion that racial differences in IQ are due to genetic factors.  There are countless other criticisms of this book, so I'd not take the data as they report it at face value.[/quote]

That's the funny thing; they really didn't assert that racial differences in IQ were primarily due to genetics.  All they said was that there was approximately a 1 std deviation difference in average IQ (something that has been exhaustively studied) and that this difference in IQ led to most of the differences in outcome. It was controversial because people don't want it to be true, not because the data in it was suspect.

To actually quote them: "The debate about whether and how much genes and environment have to do with ethnic differences remains unresolved."

It's becoming increasingly clear though that shared environment (what people generally think of as home life) has less impact then was previously thought.  From what I've read, the current thinking is that about 70% is hereditary and 30% is seems to be random luck from a messy biological process. The amount of impact the home environment has on IQ drops to almost zero by adulthood.  Obviously this assumes some environment without extreme privation, something which most people in the US don't experience. [/quote]

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