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But that is getting dangerously close to implying that different humans have different potential intelligence, and that's a very politically dangerous path to g
by MRD85 8y ago
But that is getting dangerously close to implying that different humans have different potential intelligence, and that's a very politically dangerous path to go down. The racial history of the US seems to make it a specially sensitive country to this issue.
- pc86 8y agoI would hope on HN of all places people wouldn't devolve into political flame wars and race baiting just because a completely factually accurate statement offends their sensibilities.
- pc86 8y agoI see that I'm wrong.
- MRD85 8y agoI wasn't attempting to race bait. I was mentioning that this is a hard issue to discuss in a lot of circles due to historical reasons. A lot of people hear race when you say "there are differences in intelligence and some part of that is genetic", a statement which doesn't mention race at all! I'm actually quite concerned personally about the effects of high IQ couples not having children and low IQ couples having a lot but it's not an easy discussion to have since, as I mentioned, people see it as a racist argument when I don't mention race at all.
- defen 8y ago> different humans have different potential intelligence Different individual humans do have different potential intelligence. Cities everywhere attract intelligent people of all races and genders, this has nothing to do with the racial history of the US.