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God, those are brilliant, and strangely: much more interesting than most professional music criticism.

From what I can tell, and I’m going to look more closely into it, the study indicates that there is indeed genetic variations between people living on different continents. Perhaps so slight as to be negligible, but still clear and present. Do remember that nobody in this thread has suggested...

Yeah, but as Gavin points out, it’s not the same thing. It’s also worth noting that snus has become really popular only recently, particularly as a superior substitute for cigarettes, suggesting they could prove a valuable revenue-stream should cigarette sales flounder on similar markets.

Whatever we want to call the findings, does this not seem to buttress Mr Tea’s argument?

I have long been of the opinion that snus is going to conquer the world one of these days. It’s already omnipresent in Scandinavia, and the tobacco behemoths are allegedly keeping a firm watch. Snus is manufactured and consumed primarily in Sweden and Norway. A version has recently been...

Interesting passage on skin colour: Hairiness is the default state of most mammals, though a few have lost much of their hair for a variety of reasons. They include many aquatic mammals such as dolphins and hippopotami, the naked mole rat and humans. Most non-human primates have lightly...

Here are the results for the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study, mentioned in the APA report: Adopting parents tested when children were 7 and 17: 120*, 115** Nonadopted, with two White biological parents: 117*, 109** Adopted, with two White biological parents: 112*, 106** Adopted, with one...

Ok. So what we need to know is: a) if the socio-economic status of those who adopt white, East Asian, and black children differ; b) if adopted children in general tend to score better than their respective group’s mean average; c) if cultural factors burden the adopted children at all...

Ok, thanks. My next question, then, is if there is any reason to believe that the U.S. citizens who adopt East Asian children are more well off than those who adopt ‘White’ children?

The third study is from Belgium (about which they write, “neither the social class of the adopting parents nor the number of years the child spent in the adopted family had any effect on the child’s IQ”). How about adoptions of black people in the U.S.? Are these also predominantly made by well...

From what I can tell, the ‘Out-of-Africa’ theory enjoys the strongest support by far. But that’s not really important as the ‘multiregional hypothesis’, if anything, seems to lend even more credence to the hereditarians’ view. Actually, they have been replicated. Three times. (Sort of.) From...

Many great arguments everyone! Mr Tea: Apropos of humans’ relatively limited degree of genetical variation, are there any examples of even very small genetic variations playing a major part in affecting a human’s bodily features?

Thats’s all for now. Your counter-arguments are appallingly lame thus far, Nomadologist. :D More on this tomorrow.

On Transracial Adoption Transracial adoption studies provide one of the best methods for resolving the question of group differences in mean IQ. The above-average IQ scores of Black adoptees at age 7 confirmed the culture-only predictions. The results of the follow-up testing at age 17 were...

More on Cultural Factors Some culture-only theorists propose that SES should not be assessed in terms of crude material measures but must be seen as a complex of attitudes, aspirations, self-images, and societal stereotypes (Loury, 2002; Ogbu, 2002; Sowell, 1994). Some of these types of...

On Socio-Economic Factors The most frequently stated culture-only hypothesis is that the mean IQ differences are due to SES [Socio-Economic Status]. In fact, controlling for SES only reduces the mean Black–White group difference in IQ by about a third, around 5 IQ points. The genetic...

I disagree. But whatever it is they are gauging, and whichever imperfections they are encumbered with, they are still important in so far as a great many people clearly find them a useful indicator of mental dexterity. Here is the report I shall be referring to henceforth. It is a compilation...

From the article I linked to earlier: The theory that [Harvard zoology professor] Gould is attacking usually goes under the name of general intelligence. Its advocates, practitioners of the hybrid psychological-statistical discipline known as psychometrics, argue simply that while individuals...

Part 3: All God’s Children If we set aside Murray’s overstated case and look solely at the science, why do you all think the results are skewed one way or the other?