Psychologists, psychometricians, and all other scientists that study intelligence tend to tread VERY lightly when it comes to this issue. After what happened to James Watson (he was ostracized for stating facts about race and intelligence despite being a Nobel prize winning scientist and one of the most successful scientists of his era) no one in the field wants to be vocal about their findings or the meaning of their findings.
Nevertheless... in my day job, I study things like this... and since I work for a private company in the private sector, I'm not beholden to the PC/SJW ramblings of any Liberal Arts department. So I, and my co-workers, can talk about it. And we do.
I'm going to go over the evidence for not only the existence of a general IQ gap between the races, but the evidence for the fact that intelligence is heritable and the IQ gap is therefore genetic and NOT caused by social issues like test bias, culture bias, or socioeconomic factors. Also, I'm going to go over evidence that shows that general intelligence (aka g) and IQ are valid measures of cognitive ability (despite what the postmodernist non-science liberal arts professors may say) and correlate with things like future success and many other life outcomes. Finally, I'm going to go over a relatively new hypothesis for why Sub-Saharan Africans score lower than other races on IQ tests... the Microcephalin gene
Sub-Saharan Africans differ from all other world populations in that they do not have any Neanderthal ancestry. When the ancestors of all humans were first leaving Africa, they split into two groups, one stayed in Africa (Sub-Saharan Africans) and the other moved into the Middle East (the ancestors of all other non-Sub-Saharan humans). The second group mated with some Neanderthals, and gained the MCPH1 Microcephalin, which causes a significant increase in brain size during development.
If you're interested in logic, reason, and science in general... you have to take morality out of the equation when studying issues, especially social issues like race. You simply cannot follow Stephen Jay Gould's example and talk about non-overlapping magisteria or whatever other nonsense he made up to avoid upsetting certain groups of people. Everything overlaps with science. Science is what we use to know the universe and everything in it. Never be afraid to talk about science. You cannot avoid a topic simply because it is politically unpleasant or socially difficult. That is cowardly.
I know many "progressive" types are very keen on saying that there's no such thing as race, or that race is a only socially constructed concept... but this is objectively false. Yes, humans DO exist on a genetic continuum, BUT, there are very clear bulges on that continuum. Those bulges are what we call "races", and they correlate with groups who's ancestors lived in the same geographical areas. Secondly... "progressives" are also very keen on quoting this ol' ditty: "OMG don't you know that there's more genetic variation WITHIN 'racial' groups than between them?!". However, that argument is so wrong that they actually gave it a name... "Lewontin's Fallacy". Basically, the point is that it doesn't matter what percentage difference comes from where... what matters is what those differences are, and even if only .0001% of a difference is between "races", if that .0001% is meaningful and descriptive... then it means something. Look it up if you want all the reasons it's bunk. Here's Richard Dawkins on why it's nonsense: "However small the racial partition of the total variation may be, if such racial characteristics as there are highly correlate with other racial characteristics, they are by definition informative, and therefore of taxonomic significance."
Now... the IQ gap. For those who don't already know, there absolutely IS an objectively measurable IQ gap between people with ancestors from different geographical areas (aka "races", which is the term I will use from here on out).
Psychologists don't debate this fact. The gap is well known and has been well known for decades. IQ test scores break down like this: on average, East Asians score higher than whites, who score higher than hispanics, who in turn score higher than blacks. The average scores are:
Asian-Americans -106, White Americans - 103, Hispanic Americans - 89, African-Americans - 85.
This means more than one in five American blacks have an IQ below 75; whereas around one in twenty whites have an IQ below 75. An IQ of 70-75 is considered "borderline retarded" by psychologists.
Studies also show there are some significant differences in what is called the structure of mental abilities. For example, if you took a sample of black and white children, all of whom had scored around 100 on the WISC-R (the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised) meaning the black kids in the sample were well above the black average -- you would find significant black-white differences on six of the thirteen subtests. The average black child would do better on Arithmetic and Digit Span; where the average white child would do better on Comprehension, Block Design, Object Assembly, and Mazes.
The gaps are not limited to the United States either. European whites average - 100, East Asians from Asia - 106, and Sub-Saharan Africans - 70.
The difference in native Sub-Saharan African IQ scores versus American Black's IQ scores can be explained by the fact that American Blacks have, on average, 20%-25% European ancestry. Lynn and Vanhanen's books 'IQ and the Wealth of Nations' and 'IQ and Global Inequality' are a good start if you are looking for data concerning the average IQ scores of different nations.
The intelligence gap was first noticed among psychologists in the early 20th century. In the 1960s and 70s, rigorous IQ testing of people of difference races began in earnest, and the IQ gap began to become undeniable. Throughout the 70s and 80s, liberal-minded scientists attempted to close the gap via alterations in the testing apparatus, since they believed that the tests must be biased in some way. They changed the parameters, made a whole slew of so-called "culture fair" tests, some were nonverbal tests (Leiter Scale), some changed the language of the questions, others were pure math, or pure reasoning, they even made questions that weren't language based at all (like Raven's Progressive Matrices or Kohs block design test)... they did twin studies, adoption studies (like the Minnesota Transracial Adoption study), everything to try to determine some reason (besides the obvious one) why this gap exists... and the studies consistently came back with the same sized gap: 15 IQ points, or 1 standard deviation (SD) between White and Black people no matter what version or type of IQ test was used.
Eventually, in 1994, The Bell Curve was published. The book was extremely controversial, despite being filled with relevant data from valid and repeated studies. Ironically, the majority of the criticisms were aimed at the validity of IQ and general intelligence as meaningful measurements (a topic I will go over in a later section) and NOT on the results of the studies.
Eventually, amid all the controversy about The Bell Curve in the media, a group of 52 well known university professors specializing in intelligence and related fields signed a public statement titled "Mainstream Science on Intelligence". They saw there was a great deal of misinformation of unfounded criticism of The Bell Curve, so they wanted to set the media straight. The statement consisted of 25 conclusions:
What does /pol/ think of Paul Joseph Watson?
>>73670506
literally who?
Based.
He condenses very important politically incorrect information in short normie friendly clips.
We need more people like that, less people like Stefan Molyneux who make 2 hour long videos that no one is going to ever watch.
Autist
>How did you become a fascist?
After i had explored our current system (indoctrination based liberal democracy) and found it wanting i started on a journey through past and possibilities to find a better way.
I began with communism derivatives and hyper democracy, ideals of libertarian purism.
But like our liberal democracy they were found wanting. The human element is the fatal flaw of these ideologies. The foundation of these belief systems is the inherent goodness and equality of human beings.
After identifying this flaw, i sought out non egalitarian, hierarchical systems. Through my studies of feudalistic societies, monarchies, oligarchies, and finally fascism, i finally discovered that the systems that have ruled our species since before our written memory (memery) are the most natural, effective, efficient and potent forms of human organization.
The primary flaw in these systems is a faulty ruler, who takes power either by hereditary succession or by forceful coup. The democracies of the post revolutionary age were designed to ease our disposition of such rulers and aide in the selection of benevolent leaders.
The dream was a good one for this problem is the key to the future of any civilization. However, the liberal democracies that have resulted from the post world war era have degenerated and festered to the point of actively working against their intended purpose. Communication technology and mass psychology (marketing/memetics/sociology) have been used and abused by narcissists and pychopaths to secure their power by manipulating the voting masses, the plebians of ancient rome, against the few capable and informed. Those who have the intelligence and capabilities to attempt to challenge these insane controllers are either seduced by their greed, transforming them into willing servants or they are swept aside by blackmail or assassination.
Facism is the only thing we have left to combat this cancer that has grown in our social matrix. Only through facism and nation states can we reset heirarchy to its natural rythme. Maybe then we can solve the problem of succession. This problem can longer be solved by the current system so it is imperative that it be discontinued.
What a sad state this board is in
Fascism is the extreme solution we need.
I go on 4chan. I just laugh and laugh. I fucking love it. I genuinely get more happiness out of 4chan than from any other aspect of my life.
This is a good place.
>>73670293
thats sad this place is kind of depressing imo. different strokes n shit.
>>73670293
/pol is pretty much the only board that makes me feel like that.
>>73670293
i like coming here, to /pol/ but, i get angrier every time. i need to remove my NEET status
Please share this, the meme war is not over until Trump is inaugurated
>>73669563
>Jessica Kuck
>KUCK
>>73669563
THE GREAT MEME WAR
Why dont military ethics exist anywhere outside of the military.
Imagine if they used that shit to get me to learn math.
I'de be a fucking genius.
>>73669373
"Today we are going to flank the sum"
Or
"Today we are going to use the creeping barrage to learn algebra"
Doesn't make sence.
>>73669468
no, obviously not like that simon.
I mean being really mean so that i learn to respect the people in charge.
>>73669468
>British """""""""Humor"""""""""
Fresh OC, you can't make this shit up.
>>73669176
So they were both Jews and the Egypts that enslaved them?
>>73669176
WE WUZ JEWZ
>>73669176
Jesus Christ.
Russians of /pol/, what's the typical view on Communism / the USSR in Russia today?
>>73669090
Miss it.
>>73669090
>>73669369
I miss the USSR. Without a rival to compete with, America has stagnated and is on the decline.
>>73669369
miss you Russia, it was wrong to crash your economy. i hope we can mend fences and be allies under a TrumPutin tag team power hour
>Supervisors OK ballot measure to lower SF voting age to 16
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Supervisors-OK-ballot-measure-to-lower-SF-voting-7458077.php
Is this real? If so, how?
>>73668958
They still won't be able to vote in federal elections.
>>73668958
We have many different levels of elections. Cities and states can run theirs how they choose within the bounds of anti-discrimination laws/amendments.
>>73668958
Just hink about it: Which party has almost complete political control over San Francisco?
Which party will 16 year olds overwhelmingly vote for?
Absolutely, certifiably, undeniably, 100% BTFO
>>73668886
liberals confirmed shortsighted
what else is new
>>73668886
>what is congress
but but the goberment needs to pay for all my free shit and take care of me
How can we fix Minnesota
>>73668709
What even IS that state?
Remove the Somalis
>>73668806
This
Any former purple-pilled Liberals ? What was the final straw that made you commit to the red pill and drop liberalism once and for all ? Any reading material or life experiences you guys can recommend to make me finally realize that liberalism is a disease ? I need help swallowing the red pill /pol/
If want some reading:
https://mega.nz/#F!B4dB2SzQ!h_pMC30v2a_y31iD0dy0sg
>>73668703
Just tour a democrat-controlled city and try to not get killed.
>>73668703
I used to be a commie, those faggots can't find a solution to anything beyond blaming white/men/christians and it just pissed me off to no end. There was no serious discussion and any attempt at it was crushed ruthlessly.
Canada tweeting about fucking Pokemon as their country literally burns.
>https://mobile.twitter.com/Canada/status/730061532311240708
>MEME COUNTRY
E
M
E
>>73668679
Makes me feel young just thinking about original gold and silver.
>>73668823
fpbp those were the fucking days man
>>73668481
Argentina I GET IT.
>>73668481
build wall
Lol
What the fuck do you expect?
Mexicans are Catholics they breed in large numbers
It's honestly a form of retribution too for the Mexican-American War
>stormfag tears taste bitter
Racism is power plus prejudice. Prove me wrong faggots. Protip: you can't.
Picunrelated food of the gods
Dictionary
racism
noun
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior: "a program to combat racism"
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races."theories of racism"
Scrabble Points10
R1A1C3I1S1M3
>>73668408
Wow, written by white racists, but nice try
G8 B8 L8 M8
