re: #37 klys

Thanks for taking the time both to read the thing and then post that.

Point A is really just the Bell Curve argument all over again. Stating that the IQ difference has a genetic explanation should be a pretty big red flag though, since there doesn’t seem to be any actual evidence for it.

This is the same problem that we run into with college entry test scores, where racial/ethnic group differences persist beyond controls for income/class status etc., and which cause all the same racists to crawl out of the woodwork and claim that black kids just aren’t college material.

I personally think the differences are probably due to cultural factors, peer effects and so on. If someone could actually do some good research into it, that would be awesome. But it is a bit of a career minefield.