Originally Posted by 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.