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Recent content by Mikemikev

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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    The inherit issue with the egalitarian theory is that it is a classic example of confirmation bias: a researcher already believes something, so he sets out to prove that it is true rather than taking evidence and basing a conclusion off of it. That is basically what Jay's Pseudoscience column...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    It sounds like a good argument, although I have not thought about it fully. Your source is very inadequate though, you really need a paper so the details and sample can be checked. There may be methodological flaws.
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Not good enough I'm afraid. The original claim had some merit to it: equalising mother's IQ and finding environmental measures account for the IQ variance. But the study you reference doesn't equalise on IQ as far as I am aware from the abstract (I don't have access to it), just controls for...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    That's interesting. Can you reference the orginal study?
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    I think the point here is one of quantity. How much of a disparity? 90%? 1%?
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Hispanics are an admixed population. The major races are Caucasian, East Asian and Sub-Saharan African. Native Americans are usually separated but cluster closest to East Asians. Each race has sub populations. Of course it's based on superficial phenotype. That's also how you assign animals...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    The only effects other than social effects would be interuterine effects and first year effects. Those can be investigated. Isn't it wise to eliminate later effects before investigating those? You know how your side constantly go on about schools and "white racist" employers? The experiment I...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Source. The method of comparing apparent ancestry and genetic ancestry with IQ is flawless. The fact is that whatever the proximal causes of the gap, the fact that adopted mixed race individuals get intermediate IQs can ultimately only be accounted for by either social effects or genetic...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Your conclusion is a non-sequitur. "Studies have shown that the greater the difference is in environmental quality the less of a factor genes play in assessing the heritability between individuals." Yes, although for anything outside massive environmental differences such as severe childhood...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Excluding severe childhood poisoning and malnutrition and severe head trauma. That is white IQ is not significantly affected by social effects. And that makes it implausible that the black white IQ gap is due to social effects. You have addressed no weaknesses. Black Americans have more access...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Normal conditions = excluding major trauma, fetal poisoning and severe malnutrition. I have outlined an experiment to exclude social causes. Now you are saying US blacks are poisoned and (LMAO) "malnourished". :lamo "Bring more KFCs, it's IQ raising time!"
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Absolute rubbish. Race and IQ are very stable constructs, as real world data demonstrates. Please don't take this fiction seriously.
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    No, the g model posits a highly heritable factor which affects most cognitive abilities. g which is essentially the same as IQ does not seem to be very environmentally modifiable, under normal conditions. Highly heritable in other words. This is one of the main reasons an environmental...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    Of course I'm not denying nonwhites have been dscriminated against at points in history. Why are you in such tears about "nonwhites". What about all the whites that got slaughtered in the Ottoman expansion, the millions of slavs captured in the white slave trade, the victims of the Mongol...
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    Why Race-Realism is Pseudoscience

    If it is possible to affect IQ by discrimination, it doesn't necessarily mean it happened in the case of the racial difference. Are black Americans really "transformed – into timid and subservient children, including those who had previously been dominant in the class"? Personally I'm not sure...
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