Friday, July 02, 2010
Stupid and dangerous
This bit of 'research' is hopelessly stupid and dangerous, but not for the stated reasons.
It's stupid because you can knock out the purported 'cause' instantly.
Super-basic logic: if you want to say that disease causes low intelligence, you must show that a difference in disease consistently correlates with a difference in intelligence, and the correlation must have lasted long enough to influence selection and evolution.
In this case the difference in disease is extremely recent, no more than three generations. Back in 1880 or so, Europe and America were just as disease-ridden as Africa. My parents were in the first American generation with widespread indoor plumbing and good medical care, the first generation that didn't lose half its babies to typhoid and cholera. Despite that, the IQ in Europe and America has always been higher than the IQ in Africa. So the major premise is blatantly and transparently false.
Huh? So you actually think that America and Europe had the same IQ as Africa until 1920? REALLY?
No, idiots, this research is dangerous for the opposite reason. It's dangerous because its blatantly transparent stupidity makes it easier for the Commies to cast all innate-difference research as stupid, which they do anyway.
We will make no progress at all in education and employment until we can calmly and objectively acknowledge, as parts of ordinary reality, the following two factual statements:
(1) IQ differs innately, and part of the difference runs along racial lines.
(2) The 'American dream' was achievable from 1940 through 1980 because we had good jobs for people of lower IQ, NOT because we had a uniformly high IQ.
The 'American dream' has been out of reach since 1980 because our Communist masters have sent those good jobs to China, NOT because our IQ distribution has changed. Current attempts to close the gap through education are utterly futile and extravagantly wasteful. We're trying to pull both Caucasians and Africans up to an Oriental IQ level, which AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.
This idiotic research throws a spanner into the recognition of innate differences, which was just beginning to dawn on some of our dim-witted elites. ¶ 3:44 PM
People in developing countries have lower IQs because their bodies divert energy from brainpower to fighting disease, researchers claimed today.
In hot nations blighted by deadly infections, the priority is survival and populations have evolved to develop stronger immune systems rather than intelligence, according to the controversial theory.
Some critics warned the study could become an excuse for racism if it was used to suggest that people in the Third World are not as intelligent as those in cooler, richer climes.
It's stupid because you can knock out the purported 'cause' instantly.
Super-basic logic: if you want to say that disease causes low intelligence, you must show that a difference in disease consistently correlates with a difference in intelligence, and the correlation must have lasted long enough to influence selection and evolution.
In this case the difference in disease is extremely recent, no more than three generations. Back in 1880 or so, Europe and America were just as disease-ridden as Africa. My parents were in the first American generation with widespread indoor plumbing and good medical care, the first generation that didn't lose half its babies to typhoid and cholera. Despite that, the IQ in Europe and America has always been higher than the IQ in Africa. So the major premise is blatantly and transparently false.
The consequence of this, if we're right, is that the IQ of a nation will be largely unaffected until you can lift the burden of disease.
Huh? So you actually think that America and Europe had the same IQ as Africa until 1920? REALLY?
The research could be abused to rationalise racism, just as the Nazis perverted scientific study in the 1930s, some critics said.
No, idiots, this research is dangerous for the opposite reason. It's dangerous because its blatantly transparent stupidity makes it easier for the Commies to cast all innate-difference research as stupid, which they do anyway.
We will make no progress at all in education and employment until we can calmly and objectively acknowledge, as parts of ordinary reality, the following two factual statements:
(1) IQ differs innately, and part of the difference runs along racial lines.
(2) The 'American dream' was achievable from 1940 through 1980 because we had good jobs for people of lower IQ, NOT because we had a uniformly high IQ.
The 'American dream' has been out of reach since 1980 because our Communist masters have sent those good jobs to China, NOT because our IQ distribution has changed. Current attempts to close the gap through education are utterly futile and extravagantly wasteful. We're trying to pull both Caucasians and Africans up to an Oriental IQ level, which AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.
This idiotic research throws a spanner into the recognition of innate differences, which was just beginning to dawn on some of our dim-witted elites. ¶ 3:44 PM
