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Proof niggers are dumb (IQ, brain size etc)

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-23 22:46 ID:et2rELvK

Oriental populations in East Asia and North America typically have mean IQs falling between 101 to 111. White populations in Europe, South Africa, Australasia, and North America have mean IQs of from 85 to 115, with an overall mean of 100. Black populations living south of the Sahara, in the Caribbean, in Britain, and in North America, average IQs of from 70 to 90.

Especially contentious was Lynn's calculation of a mean IQ of only 70 for Black Africans living south of the Sahara. Many reviewers have expressed skepticism about such a low IQ, holding it impossible that, by European standards, 50 percent of Black Africa is 'mentally retarded'. But a mean African IQ of 70 has been confirmed in three studies since Lynn's review, each of which used Raven's Progressive Matrices, a test regarded as an excellent measure of the non-verbal component of general intelligence and one not bound by culturally specific information.

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-11 13:00

Did I say that *g* doesn't exist?  That isn't what I'm saying at all. *G* exists, but considering that we have no fucking idea what *g* is, we can't measure it. 

What we're good at is what is called *weak AI* -- we can teach a machine how to learn to play chess, however we have no idea how a machine could be made to learn everything.  We've been faking it. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Computers_Can%27t_Do
Here are some of the assumptions that we make in AI:

A Biological Assumption - That at some level people operate in a digital manner

A Psychological Assumption - All thought is calculation

An Epistemological Assumption - That all knowledge can be formalized

An Ontological Assumption - That our world is comprised of context-free facts

That's the way we think about intelligence.  But it doesn't work that way in the real world.  You don't make decisions based on algebra, most of the time you do what's called lateral thinking -- you go to a solution that can't be thought out in pure logic.  And not everything we know can be (strictly speaking) formalized.  I can't give you the formal logic of how to write a song.  It doesn't exist. 

Yet that's what the IQ test tries to measure. It makes the assumption that being able to quickly find the word that completes an analogy, or the shape that doesn't fit necessarily means that the person in question has a high *g*.  I don't think it does.  As I said before, IQ tests don't measure *g*, they measure skills that the test makers believe corelates to *g*. I think intelligence is a lot harder to define and measure.  If we really knew how intelligence works, we should be able to explain how to built a strong AI that can reason just as well as any human. 

I don't think we're even close.

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