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The only rebuttals I saw were your dumb ass "YOURE NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT ENVIRONMENT!" and "YOUR GENES ARE 98% THE SAME AS BLACK PEOPLE!" and "YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO ADMIT T HAT YOUR ANCESTORS WERE BLACK!"
This argument is two fold; one, you have to prove that intelligence can be affected by genetics of race.
Intelligence testing (especially for
g) is one of the most scientifically rigid areas where new discoveries are occuring today. Maybe you don't understand the scientific method the way you claim to, but one of the first things they do when doing a massive study is isolate factors of difference, for example; ENVIRONMENT!!! this includes: Socio-economic standing, poverty during youth, nutrition during youth ETC... ETC... ETC... and then control for it, for example, only picking black people to compare to white people when they have similar environmental factors playing into their upbringing. They find that, after controlling for all interesting variables, they black people still have a ten to fifteen point gap with white people on average. This doesn't mean that there aren't some black people out there smarter than almost all white people. This is an AVERAGE. So no pulling "We got us some rocket scientists! THIS DISPROVES ALL YOUR CLAIMS!" out of your ass. Also, it only takes a few percentage points (I don't remember exactly how much. It was much less than seven but not more than two..) of DNA to separate us from chimps. Certainly you don't believe that if we were to change the upbrining environment of chimps they would eventually learn to succeed in our fast paced world do you?
Second, now, this is the big one, that intelligence can have an effect on someone's outlook on life.
In britain some time in the early 1970's, scientists did a survey for about ten thousand people. They measured such things as IQ factors, scholastic acheivment, parental divorces ETC... Later, some other scientists went through this data looking for families which had siblings with vastly different (ten points or more) IQs. They first factor out all variables; first, the parents can't have gotten divorced before the youngest child turned 18. Second, the family must have had a fairly steady source of income while the children were being brought up. The purpose of this was to factor out all the sibling pairs who would likely contaminate the survey (the point being that you make it to where your results CAN'T be explained by other circumstances). Now, keep in mind that the people who were doing this study didn't actually COLLECT the data they were examining. They were just reinterpreting it, looking for correlations. They found that children who were very dull tended to have much lower standards of living later in life than their bright siblings, tended to get divorced more often, and also tended to have more out of wedlock children. Bright children, on the other hand, went to college more often, got better jobs ETC... if you only believe that thier environment growing up had any effect on their upbringing, you'd have no explanation for this.
Now that that's out of the way, I can talk to you about this. I only hope you're not too ignorant to be able to consider a hypothetical, as you have been missing the point of this thread since post #2.
What if it was proven and you couldn't deny it no matter how hard you tried? What then?