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According to you after getting the nice meal Jamal should "return to the level of intelligence that was ALREADY set by his genetics."
Originally posted by Ben81
There is another scientist who claimed that (a local one from Quebec)
The Quebec College of Physicians has suspended and fined a psychiatrist and radio host who once told listeners blacks have low IQs.
Pierre Mailloux was suspended from his profession Friday as a psychiatrist for a period of two years and ordered to pay fines totalling $33,000 for racially charged statements that drew the ire of regulators.
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I think .. it is absurd to say such a thing
in every nationality .. some are very intelligent and others arent
but have other habilities to compensate
in my world .. EVERYONE is egual .. INTELLIGENT OR NOTedit on 7/20/2011 by Ben81 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by caladonea
I personally think this finding is ridiculous. There are (intelligent) and (not so intelligent) people from every race on planet earth...common sense and observation ..tells us that.
Originally posted by Threegirls I think we have established that levels of intelligence have for more to do with environment, experience, understanding and knowledge and less to do with colour.
Also a higher level of intelligence does not appear to be as beneficial for humanity as intelligence combined with other qualities of equal value
*Scientists and Educators are beginning to realize that low intelligence is possibly due to genetic inheritance of historically low African American IQ levels... Some have suggested intermarriage with whites to raise black IQ levels, but many in both groups have found this to be a distasteful solution with fascist underpinnings. So, it is generally opposed. This leaves African Americans with a permanently low IQ with no hope of remediation, because IQ is not a function of education. The tragedy is found in the mere 17%-25%graduation rates in African American high school statistics as children with low IQ who are forced to act as though they have high IQ predictably fail, giving them feelings of low self-esteem and worthlessness, and may precipitate their later tendency toward violent criminal behavior.
According to the best-selling book on race and intelligence, TheBell Curve, as a group, African Americans have a average mean IQ of only 85 points as compared to Europeans who have an average mean IQ of 100-103points.
However, in some African countries, the Average Mean IQ Level is even lower—in fact, lower than 60 points on average. This occurs in many out of the way villages along the Zaire River Basin. Fifty percent of these Africans are either in the retarded or moron group.
Back in America, only 16% of African Americans have IQ's above 100 points, which is approximately what is required to achieve a mere D-/F+ in college. Graduation rates of a mere 32% at all-black Howard University bear this out, and Howard University is definitely not a difficult school to attend.
Originally posted by caladoneaI personally think this finding is ridiculous. There are (intelligent) and (not so intelligent) people from every race on planet earth...common sense and observation ..tells us that.
The 79-year-old geneticist
Your diet CANNOT make you smarter.
Your intelligence is determined by your genetics.
....Having lived in the same location for millions of years, the variation between traits and reproductive success became so refined that the African gene pool turned more and more homogenous.....
...There are no genetic characteristics possessed by all Blacks but not by non- Blacks; similarly, there is no gene or cluster of genes common to all Whites but not to non-Whites. One's race is not determined by a single gene or gene cluster, as is, for example, sickle cell anemia. Nor are races marked by important differences in gene frequencies, the rates of appearance of certain gene types. The data compiled by various scientists demonstrates, contrary to popular opinion, that intra-group differences exceed inter-group differences. That is, greater genetic variation exists within the populations typically labeled Black and White than between these populations. This finding refutes the supposition that racial divisions reflect fundamental genetic differences.... academic.udayton.edu...
Population Genetics of Modern Human Evolution
John H Relethford, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, USA
Rosalind M Harding, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
....Should the entire continent of Africa be considered once race? If so, then we have the problem of dealing with some of the highest levels of population diversity observed in humans subsumed under one label...
only 10% of the total global variation... occurs between continental groups... 90% occurs within groups.... www.stats.ox.ac.uk...
If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. Discovery News has been reporting on human/Neanderthal interbreeding for some time now, so this latest research confirms earlier findings.
..The ancestors of Neanderthals left Africa about 400,000 to 800,000 years ago. They evolved over the millennia mostly in what are now France, Spain, Germany and Russia. They went extinct, or were simply absorbed into the modern human population, about 30,000 years ago....
....Labuda and his colleagues identified a piece of DNA, called a haplotype, in the human X chromosome that seemed different. They questioned its origins.
Fast forward to 2010, when the Neanderthal genome was sequenced. The researchers could then compare the haplotype to the Neanderthal genome as well as to the DNA of existing humans. The scientists found that the sequence was present in people across all continents, except for sub-Saharan Africa, and including Australia.
"There is little doubt that this haplotype is present because of mating with our ancestors and Neanderthals," said Nick Patterson of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.....
The modern human/Neanderthal combo likely benefitted our species, enabling it to survive in harsh, cold regions that Neanderthals previously had adapted to.
"Variability is very important for long-term survival of a species," Labuda concluded. "Every addition to the genome can be enriching."
news.discovery.com...
Originally posted by whyshouldI trustyou2619
Let me guess..white scientist? I find this topic offensive and would ask the mods to remove it.
According to the best-selling book on race and intelligence, The Bell Curve, as a group, African Americans have an average mean IQ of only 85 points as compared to Europeans who have an average mean IQ of 100-103points.
However, in some African countries, the Average Mean IQ Level is even lower—in fact, lower than 60 points on average. This occurs in many out of the way villages along the Zaire River Basin. Fifty percent of these Africans are either in the retarded or moron group.
Back in America, only 16% of African Americans have IQ's above 100 points, which is approximately what is required to achieve a mere D-/F+ in college. Graduation rates of a mere 32% at all-black Howard University bear this out, and Howard University is definitely not a difficult school to attend.
Originally posted by Southern Guardian
Why do we have to lump everybody into races that bear little to no genetic differences? Why not take people by who they are and what person they make themselves out to be. Do we choose how we are born, where we are born, to what circumstances we found ourselves in interms of culture, race and religion?
I am my own man, everybody here is in their own individualism. Why not accept that fact? Is it so hard? Or is ones life so depressive and lacking in anything that they have to group themselves to celebrate something?
Let me guess..white scientist? I find this topic offensive and would ask the mods to remove it.
Originally posted by caladonea
I personally think this finding is ridiculous. There are (intelligent) and (not so intelligent) people from every race on planet earth...common sense and observation ..tells us that.
Originally posted by amazed
Originally posted by Southern Guardian
Why do we have to lump everybody into races that bear little to no genetic differences? Why not take people by who they are and what person they make themselves out to be. Do we choose how we are born, where we are born, to what circumstances we found ourselves in interms of culture, race and religion?
I am my own man, everybody here is in their own individualism. Why not accept that fact? Is it so hard? Or is ones life so depressive and lacking in anything that they have to group themselves to celebrate something?
It seems that people who are lacking personal power within themselves have this ability to lump others into groups which they then pretend are "less" than themselves. This way they can feel they are better, and therefore more entitled than another group of people.
It is called putting down someone else so you can feel good about yourself. It is a strange thing us humans seem to do, and I hope that someday, we can "get over ourselves".
IMO we have one race of humans on this planet, with many different cultures. This scientist, does not seem as intelligent as he thinks he is if he couldn't figure that out.
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