Originally posted by Naso:
BTW, miko, I want to understand your position:
Q: You are saying that some ethnic group is genetically less intelligent of some other?
If the answer is yes, what weight you put on social structure, educational system, in a word, the environment they use to live?
The answer is unfortunately YES. The difference is large, especially in the upper and lower expremes of distribution.
Intelligence is 60-80% inheritable, most of the rest is determined by random environmental factors.
The effectiveness of the social programs directed towards raising the IQ or academic achievemant is practically nill despite huge expences. The Head Start programs do give a considerable boost to IQ measured of the children but the effect can be considered an acceleration, not true gain - all the differences disappear by the time children reach 16-17.
This data can be used by racists as well as the opposite view. For example:
If Hitler had modern hard data that some race is 1.3 standard deviations below average IQ for white people, he might have used it as an excuse to treat them as sub-humans.
On the other hand, if he had the modern hard data that ashkenasi Jews are 1+ standard deviations above average, he might have hated jews less.
Simple calculation shows that in a country of ~55 million germans and ~2 million jews there would be equal number of jews and germans with IQ 135+ (approximately - try it yourself).
So equal number of jews and germans in the key positions of economy, science, culture and media in germany did not require conspiracy or some character feature to explain - it was just the natural phenomenon of difference in intelligence.
miko
[ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: miko2d ]
