point- you cant judge from a little percent of the world!!

JUST SAYING !

What we know about these tests is that there’s a correlation between high performance and comparable performance for a particular set of other tasks, such as other kinds of tests in an academic setting. That’s it. That anxiety can influence this performance isn’t a terribly remarkable finding, nor is it remarkable that members of different ethnic groups may be made anxious in ways particular to their group, given that their environment can impinge on them in particular ways. If this study, or any that preceded it, have any validity or statistical power, that’s what they’ve discovered. The rest we can only properly be agnostic about.

Right. Your statement has gone from “undeniable” to “very plausible”. Give it another day and it will be “bogus”.

Of course there are genetic differences between races. That’s why there are races. But when it comes to sport there are surely huge social and peer pressures determining which sports different people take up. Sprinting offers many black role models which must be a factor.

There are very few black golfers and I’ve never played bridge against a black opponent. Are those genetic too?

Peter

Oh, is this how you do science?

It’s interesting to learn that there is a gene for running the 100 metres. I always thought you had to train. I wonder if there is also a gene for being unable to see a stupid argument?

I think it is very plausible to assume that there are genes that regulate the type of muscle fibers you have which determine whether you are better suited for long distance running compared to the sprint.

There may be genes for being unable to see stupid arguments, as well as genes that make you dismiss any valid arguments that undermine your ideology out of hand.

Ummm, no. The tests are clearly not worthless. If one person got something like 140 and another got an 80 saying the person with a 140 is more intelligent regardless of race should not be controversial. That said they obviously have problems and the point that people who like this finding should not be trumpeting the results is valid since it was not a huge study and the next one could show the exact opposite.

C’mon liberals. We can’t have it both ways. We shouldn’t get a free pass to trumpet results like this, when in the next breath we crap all over the same tests when they generate results we don’t like. Either these tests are worthless, or they’re not. Either they’re intrinsically culturally biased, or they’re not. Either we know what intelligence is, or we don’t. We don’t get to claim knowledge we don’t have when the utilization of that “knowledge” fits a pre-conceived notion. That’s the epitome of unscientific behavior. If it makes you happy, fine, say it makes you happy. No problem with that. But why even suggest it means anything remotely scientific? You just open the point up to ridicule by the bigots, and rightly so, which helps no one.

Good point! Along the smae lines, have you ever noticed how interesting it is that the British Empire included so many different groups with a genetic predisposition for playing cricket?