If you are interested in my motivation, it is not building a ladder of world's populations according to IQ and boasting about being somewhere in the upper half.

If you are interested in my motivation, it is not building a ladder of world's populations according to IQ and boasting about being somewhere in the upper half. I am more concerned with the fact that such taboos are slowing down our research of natural intelligence to a crawl. Be specific. What specific research questions are you claiming have been slowed, and in what ways?