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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I hate political correctness. If he would have said Asians are smarter than whites, anger, violence, slamming him in the media, or forcing this guy to apolgize wouldn't have been the reaction I would have.
If he could back up his claim with sound, peer-reviewed, and an understanding of 'why', then it could be believed.
Now there are way too many other factors to conclude that just by the color of your skin that you would be dumb. There are plenty of minority people who are smarter than whites, so the theory wouldn't pass right there. If he said it might be easier for whites to retain information in memories better, he might be able to test that theory.
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It is a theory, you have to come up with a the theory, before you can test your theory right?
He can't test it yet, but look at the hype this has caused, I'm going to bet that it will cause at least a small boost in research by the believers - to prove the theory, AND by the opponents, in attempts to disprove it.
It will however be testable once they can find the DNA pieces that effect intelligence, so thats the goal is it not?
All you guys keep talking about intelligence, none of it makes any sense you are talking about IQ and etc, that's not what he is talking about. The more you learn, the better you will do on those tests. That is not intelligence that is knowledge.
At this point we cannot honestly measure intelligence, so the discussion on 'oh this jew is more intelligent than this white, and this white is more intelligent than this asian' is futile.
You can't break down a theory like this(into subgroups of each race), that is generalizing the majority of the race, to disprove it, that doesn't make sense. The whole thing is based on a majority.