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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Jews get to be a race now?  |
I don't care whether or not they are a race. Their scores on IQ tests, however, do differ from other "whites".
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Actually I don't see a problem with separating Jews from other 'whites' as they do form a sub group to some extent. The problem is the other subgroups are less well defined. This makes the data pretty meaningless.
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How does this make the data meaningless? (I didn't even present data).
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The same type of thinking would apply to intelligence. Simple genetic drift might apply to intelligence differences due to geographical separations, and your subgroup is the only one that matters to you.
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Again, the data examining racial differences in cognitive abilities focuses on IQ scores. IQ scores are not the same thing as intelligence. IQ tests favor certain abilities over others (those that predict outcomes in western cultures). Big "G" as measured by IQ scores isn't very informative about differences in cognitive abilities between groups anyway. IQ tests are made up of a number of different subtests. You can get an IQ of 100 a number of different ways (verbal ability, mathematical ability, spatial ability, etc.).