Latest scientific consensus on intelligence, does it justify racism?

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Originally Posted by central scrutinizer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is no way to accurately quantify intelligence and if there was, there would be no way to accurately measure it due to the dynamic nature of brain chemistry. A subject could provide erroneous data for many millions of reasons that it would be virtually impossible to account for.

And if there was some magical method to somehow control the gathering of such data, trying to parse it along racial lines would only open up more variables to be accounted for.


This is magical thinking, nothing more.
Until we can upload ourselves to computers of course. Then we'll hash all of this out, and at the end of the day your agenda would still not be served.

a person's iq changes very little throughout his or her life, and iq has been found to be highly correlated with many other indicators such as college, employment, socio-economic status, and criminal history. in fact, your score on an iq test is the best predictor of how and what you will do later in life, even trumping your parent's socio-economic status. (although, the two are conflated anyway).

the sad thing is, this data and its prescriptions for society are often eclipsed by people who try to harness it for their own politically or racially motivated ambitions.