This debate shouldn't be on Getbig. Period.
Vince, probably 40% of the threads in the G&O could arguably be placed on another board in this forum, or not be on this website at all. What makes this topic different? Because it's controversial? Because it makes you uncomfortable?
Meta-physical is at least one standard deviation above Matt re intelligence. It should be obvious to most university graduates.
My IQ has been tested and retested for 17 years now, and - unsurprisingly, given the consistency of IQ testing - mine always holds steady at around 130. That isn't a surprise given that I have the university education that I described - not the crap psychology degree; a field that I personally regard as a joke. But rather, the four years of university mathematics. Are you saying that Meta-physical has a university education higher than that? In other words, a Master's degree of higher in a STEM field? Because if he doesn't have a minimum of four years of university in a STEM field, then he is not as educated as me, and the ONLY reason why you are stating that he appears to be more intelligent than me is because YOU AGREE WITH HIM. Nothing more. It has NOTHING to do with critical thinking, or who has formulated the superior argument. You just agree with him.
Meanwhile, I could put $10,000 in escrow with Ron, and bet you that no Black man would win a Nobel Prize in a science field this year. Would you take me up on that bet? Absolutely not. Just as you wouldn't bet that a Chinese man would win any of the top 100 metre sprint contests in 2018. You know full well that these racial genetic differences exist, and you would NOT bet money that I am wrong, because you know I'm not wrong. You just want to believe that I'm wrong, which is such a bizarre self-hating stance for a White man to take.
Seriously Vince - do you enjoy White people being blamed for the failure of Aborigines in Australia, despite the billions of dollars that Australia has paid to ameliorate their living conditions? Just as with every other White-majority countries, pouring money to try to bring non-White people up to the level of White people has done NOTHING to improve their conditions. But let's keep spending billions, if not trillions of dollars to make all the races get equal results, right Vince? Is that rational to you? How much must your side fail before you start to consider rational public policy? But I suppose blaming White people for everything is rational to you, right Vince?
At 75 - and I say this with no disrespect to your age - you will simply not be around when the current demographic DISASTER that all Western societies face comes into fruition. It will be my children and their children who have to suffer through the importation of masses of second and third world immigrants, and the resultant infrastructural collapse that comes with it. As far as today is concerned, virtually every nation that collects statistics on race with respect to various outcomes produces the exact same results. For instance, the citizens every White-majority nation is uniquely made to feel guilty in their own way; with Canada, it is the same as your beloved Australia, and that is the treatment of Aborigines. And that is despite Canada pouring billions of dollars EACH YEAR into the amelioration of First Nations [Aborigine] issues.
No, it wouldn't be obvious to any unbiased person that Meta-physical is smarter than me - if my user name was
I can accept the findings where IQ has been tested in populations and even countries, but it would be foolish to start making value judgements on the basis of those tests. There may be some truth in what Matt is arguing but he discloses more about his own beliefs and values instead of winning the discussion. Clearly, having an honours degree in psychology does not make Matt or anyone else an expert in anything.
Little J's comment pretty much sums up the outcome for Matt.
Your last sentence is pure intellectual cowardice, plain and simple. Not like you would be able to debate yourself out of a wet paper bag here, Vince. Literally over a CENTURY of psychometric testing proves the results I am speaking of. And we are not speaking about one or two IQ points. We are speaking about FIFTEEN IQ POINTS on average. That's massive! That is one full standard deviation! It means that in sub-Sahara Africa, a majority of countries have an average IQ of 70 [some even lower than that]. Did you know that an average IQ of 70 qualifies for mental retardation?
But hey, no big deal, right Vince? We should just ignore such petty details. Because hey, what's one full standard deviation in IQ.
As for making judgments on the value of IQ test. Answer this question, Vince: do you make judgments that people with Down syndrome are of lower intelligence, given that the IQ test is what makes that determination? Do you believe that the IQ test is valid when determining that people with Down syndrome have lower intelligence than people without Down syndrome.
PS - regardless of your comment that Meta-physical is smarter than me [he has given me no evidence that he would beat me in an IQ test, thus far], the fact remains, I regard this debate as literally being too easy. Hahaha - the suggestion that all races have equal intelligence is literally hilarious to me. Not ONE STUDY proves that - not one! And you suggest the races have precisely identical IQ averages? Furthermore, unpack what you are saying here - you are literally stating that our brain, despite being under 4% of our total body mass while consuming over 20% of our nutrients, did NOT face the forces of evolution in the 50,000 years of divergent biological history where the races were separated? So according to you, Vince - our brains did not evolve? Evolution did not play a role on our brains? LOL. THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING HERE. Holy shit, Vince - you are literally denying evolution. Do you believe that the earth is flat too?