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Scientist claims 'Africans are less intelligent than Westerners'
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http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece
From the Inde. Strikes me as racist, no doubt some would say that that's a run of the mill 'politically correct' reflex reaction.
What do you think?
From the Inde. Strikes me as racist, no doubt some would say that that's a run of the mill 'politically correct' reflex reaction.
What do you think?
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If you go into an African village where there is little communication with the outside world they mostly live peacefully.
most societies will develop the technology they need to survive.
And they shouldn't forget countries such as Egypt come under Africa and they made huge advances in construction, etc centuries ago.
However, I do find it very worrying that some people want him to face criminal charges. Bigotry should be openly and publicly challenged and discredited; silencing it and criminalising allows it to effectively go unchallenged. And more than anything threats of bringing charges and the like show no respect for freedom of speech.
When a genetic "scientist" is splitting people into anything other than genetically defined groups, he's no longer engaging in science, he's engaging in his own prejudices. I'd welcome research into the genetic origins of intelligence in humans, but when the initial premise is using social groupings rather than genetic groupings, it's simply very bad science right from the outset. So he's either a bad scientist, or a good scientist who's letting his own racism become part of his work. Judging by the fact that he has a Nobel prize, I'd guess it's the second one.
What do you mean by him using 'social' groupings? I don't understand.
Also, is he not using 'genetic' grouping already - albeit in an unacceptably broad way?
I agree that if one is to do a study into this, one has to be far more thorough in pinpointing low level genetic groups rather than tar entire communities just because of the similarity of their skin tone.
"This is Watson at his most scandalous. He has said similar things about women before but I have never heard him get into this racist terrain. If he knew the literature in the subject he would know he was out of his depth scientifically, quite apart from socially and politically."
Sounds like a sad, pathetic old man, obsessed with staying in the limelight whose insults against woman, gay people and people he doesn't consider beautiful (state enforced eugenics to enforce intelligence and beauty by the way) didn't get him enough media so he is desperately crawling after scandal by deciding to vomit his ideas of race into the public.
Doesn't make them un-intelligent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7052416.stm
Take it you've never taken an IQ test then before?
It is designed to test intelligence and not knowledge, knowledge would be like knowing the prime minister of Norway or the largest sea in the world. But you'll never find questions like that in an IQ test.
I agree. An IQ test is there to give an indication mainly on reasoning ability - not general knowledge.
There's a lot of criticism towards IQ tests saying many of them are culturally biased and based more on knowledge rather than actual intelligence.
I've done lots of IQ tests, lots of American ones are very culture specific, lots of others rely heavily on word association and mathmatical ability clearly something that is learnt.
I don't remember much from my pyschology lessons at college and uni, I do remember the general consensus is that standardised IQ tests are pointless.
On a side note my IQ is 164, which puts me in the "genius" category. Funny that