On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:13:58PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Aka, acknowledging that genetics plays any part, whatsoever, in mental aptitude, is one of the greatest sins of our time!
Quite incredible when you think about it, becuase either the fact is true, or it is not, and in either case, the age of reason was meant to result in humans who simply enquire as to what the fact truly is, rather than how quickly can we crucify someone who ponders or tests such a trait, to determine its veracity.
Simply astounding, but this is the "modern" world where white skinned folk (men in particular) are vilified in general, even for broaching such subjects.
Welcome to The Ministry of Truth.
All human characteristics can be plotted and fall on a bell curve, including intelligence. this is also true of definable sub-populations.
I'm guessing that you fall within 1/2 standard deviation from the mean for intelligence, one way or the other.
Let us presume that, for the purposes of argument, that the median for African-Americans is shifted left 1/2 standard deviation (which I don't believe to be true, but bear with me).
If both of my assumptions are correct, that means that millions of African-Americans are smarter than you.
That must really burn, to know that.
The presumption opposite to reason - whatever the actual statistic is, it is, and my presumption may or may not be false, or true, just as yours. The projection of "must really burn" is the exact opposite of reason - my first quick google search on the topic shows significant standard deviations, with East Asians above whites and Jewish Americans at the top of the heap - if I wanted to burn, this fact would be the moment :D The underlying point is that in this "modern" "tolerant" age, discussion of such facts leads to projected assertions such as "that must really burn" - the opposite result to if we actually lived in an age of reason. Ipso facto, we do not live in an age of reason - discussion of politically incorrect facts almost invariably brings out straw men, character assassinations and other illogical and non-fact based "arguments". That's my point, which you just demonstrated perfectly. Good luck, Z