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   From: mlwi@swipnet.se   
      
   "Peter Brooks"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:dc3b2c60-d096-4d15-ac1b-1c9e34840573@q22g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...   
   On Jul 23, 5:49 am, "M Winther"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> hugely disadvantaged, despite having increased their IQ to 85   
   >>   
   >On the subject of intelligence, you appear not to have understood   
   >Lance's comment:   
   >   
   >"   
   >Engineers commonly check the validity of claims with "back of the   
   >envelop" calculations looking to see whether results are in   
   >reasonable   
   >agreement with other known facts. I think a little thought soon shows   
   >that the claims about African IQs being so low either invalidate the   
   >IQ measure as a useful measure in Africa (because Africans are not   
   >all   
   >institutionalized and unable to learn to tie their shoe laces or   
   >struggle to master simple tasks) or suggest that the data is suspect.   
   >"   
   >   
   >Lance did suggest that it would take a 'little thought' to see the   
   >problem, but that seems to have been more than you had at your   
   >disposal.   
   >   
   >Could there perhaps be some inverse relationship between people who   
   >hold racist views and their intelligence?   
      
   There is nothing wrong with my intelligence. I make the empirical   
   observation that Blacks are disadvantaged everywhere in the world.   
   I read books by Rushton, Lynn, Peter Watson, etc., and nobody   
   questions that Blacks, everywhere, have lower IQ. The point of   
   contention is what it depends on. Regardless, this must mean that   
   Blacks are at a disadvantage in modern society (but not in my country   
   because we have such a strong welfare system).   
      
   Maybe all these scientists have hoodwinked me and made me believe   
   that there exists a pronounced racial IQ differential. It is possible that   
   I have been fooled. But you will have to pinpoint the errors in their   
   research to make me change opinion in this matter.   
      
   Mats   
      
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