Glava

The article supports the idea that Asians in the US are better in math because of cultural reasons well, but it does nothing to disprove that genes are not a factor, other than saying "they just aren't". While I'm sure culture is an important factor, it seems wrong to simply discount the influence of genes in intelligence when they are a scientifically-proven factor in so many other traits - baldness, mental illness, heart disease, etc. There are also many traits that are found in specific ethnic/racial groups (which I believe is not the same as "race" alone, because of the fuzzy boundaries that it implies) much more commonly than in the general population - sickle-cell anemia in blacks and Tay-Sachs disease in Jews from Eastern/Central Europe, among others. I don't see why intelligence is automatically different. It should be studied more, and not just dismissed so we can all feel good about ourselves. Granted, it's a lot harder to measure than simply looking at the shapes of one's bloodcells, as in anemia, but if a common standard is used, the results will have some validity.