3cKU

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by 3cKU 1y ago
It does seem the obvious place to start looking, and the only surprise is that it took so long.
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by 3cKU 1y ago
At least you'll admit that your ideas are extreme. That false equivalence does nothing to rebut the bell curve.
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by 3cKU 1y ago
Inbreeding in small populations (your first two links) is not relevant, and your third link is a false equivalence.
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by 3cKU 1y ago
No. The first part of that quote is consistent with any hypothesis (G only, E only, G&E), i.e. cannot distinguish between them.
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by 3cKU 1y ago
Access to schooling etc can't be the whole story: "black students from prosperous families tend to score higher in IQ than blacks from poor families, but they score no higher, on average, than whites from poor families".
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by 3cKU 1y ago
"the states with the lowest gini co-efficient are the ones that are the least diverse" seems a better fit.
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by 3cKU 1y ago
> white people who think ... Your link says "high-ability whites are less likely than low-ability whites to report ..."
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by 3cKU 1y ago
Raven's Progressive Matrices is often administered. Is that test culturally biased? Does that test measure only ability to take that test and nothing else?
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by 3cKU 1y ago
> And how are you able to rule out It is not possible to rule out unfalsifiable hypotheses.
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by 3cKU 1y ago
There are several premises: 1. CMU needs immigration to remain a top school. 2. His children will be in the top 1% of 1% of 1% to qualify for top schools. 3. His children will move away if CMU does not remain a top school... 4. and that wou
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by 3cKU 1y ago
> The right thinks there is a cultural problem to be solved. That's also the left. The right holds the differences are genetic, not likely to change, and the only problem to solve is how to keep them out of the country.