Why do you hate Jews Matt? Don't you admire their intelligence?
Yes, I do. I feel that from an evolutionary perspective they are a threat to my people [Europeans], but I can't help but to respect their high intelligence. It is survival of the fittest and if Jews win the race wars, then they were obviously the fittest to do so.
It isn't. Brain size has no correlation with a person's intelligence. If it did, the people with the biggest heads (like Andre the giant, to give an example) would be the smartest and the majority of women would be less capable than their male counterparts when it comes to being smart, which is hardly the case. It would also mean your level of intelligence / IQ would double or even triple as you grow from being a child to an adult.
Scroll down to point 5, here:
http://vdare.com/misc/051207_rushton_fallacy.htm5. Brain Size Differences.
Larger brains are more intelligent because they contain more neurons and synapses and can process information more efficiently. Two dozen studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have shown that brain size is related to IQ differences within race with a correlation of about 0.40.
The different races also have different brain sizes. One study followed 50,000 children from birth to age 7. The East Asian American children in the sample averaged a larger head circumference at birth, 4 months, 1 year, and 7 years than did the White children, who in turn averaged a larger head circumference than did the Black children. By age 7, the East Asian American children had an average IQ of 110; Whites, 102; and Blacks 90.
The findings on race differences in brain size are highly reliable. They have been confirmed using four independent procedures—MRI, endocranial volume from empty skulls, wet brain weight at autopsy, and external head size measures.
How do our critics handle this evidence? Rather than refuting or challenging these facts, they completely ignore them.
BRAIN SIZE-IQ RELATIONS: WHERE WAS GOULD DURING THE DECADE OF THE BRAIN?
scroll down a little to page 170:http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/rushtonpdfs/Gould.pdfand:
The relationship between brain volume and intelligence has been a topic of a scientific debate since at least the 1830s. To address the debate, a meta-analysis of the relationship between in vivo brain volume and intelligence was conducted. Based on 37 samples across 1530 people, the population correlation was estimated at 0.33. The correlation is higher for females than males. It is also higher for adults than children. For all age and sex groups, it is clear that brain volume is positively correlated with intelligence.
http://www.citeulike.org/user/ckai1/article/232181
Also, read this:
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/08/13/brains-bigger-is-better-sort-of/... it's about the brain being bigger and more convoluted in "certain areas" that makes the difference; that together with its efficiency for performing the tasks it does makes the superior brain!!
OR - and as Richard Haier (July 19, 2004) of UC Irvine College of Medicine stated in his piece:
...Human intelligence determined by volume and location of gray matter tissue in brain:"The study demonstrated that general human intelligence appears to be correlated with the volume and location of gray matter tissue in the brain"
http://today.uci.edu/iframe.php?p=/news/release_detail_iframe.asp?key=1187Human smarts based on volume, location of gray matterhttp://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/3336Brain Research Institute, UCLA:
Scans Show Different Growth for Intelligent Brains:http://www.bri.ucla.edu/bri_weekly/news_060330.aspOh and Kiwiol, present evidence for equal brain sizes across the different race groups.
LOL.
Some good comments from Sailer's blog:
Pat Shuff,
If you read the paper Rushton & Jensen note that Einstein was aged 76. If you compared the size when he was in his 20's it would be quite different.
Also, are you kidding about Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" book? His comments regarding brain size were incorrect at the time and subsequent research has further shown this.
As long ago as the 1980's, there was a clear correlation between the physical size of a brain (as measured carefully by NMR) and IQ. Twin studies are overwhelmingly clear that genetics are at least 50% responsible for differences in intelligence.
Modern MRI imaging has confirmed a positive correlation. Recently Richard Haier, at Brain Research Institute, UC Irvine College of Medicine, found that general human intelligence appears to be correlated with the volume and location of gray matter tissue in the brain.
See this article in New Scientist dated 11 March 2009, discussing the recent twin studies on myelination & intelligence:
"By comparing brain maps of identical twins, which share the same genes, with fraternal twins, which share about half their genes, the team calculate that myelin integrity is genetically determined in many brain areas important for intelligence. This includes the corpus callosum, which integrates signals from the left and right sides of the body, and the parietal lobes, responsible for visual and spatial reasoning and logic (see above). Myelin quality in these areas was also correlated with scores on tests of abstract reasoning and overall intelligence (The Journal of Neuroscience, vol 29, p 2212).
Just because intelligence is strongly genetic, that doesn't mean it cannot be improved. "It's just the opposite," says Richard Haier, of the University of California, Irvine, who works with Thompson. "If it's genetic, it's biochemical, and we have all kinds of ways of influencing biochemistry."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126993.300-highspeed-brains-are-in-the-genes.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news"In healthy adults, greater intelligence is associated with larger intracranial gray matter and to a lesser extent with white matter. Variations in prefrontal and posterior temporal cortical thickness are particularly linked with intellectual ability." Cerebral Cortex 2007 17(9):2163-2171
The differences are seen in children's brain development:
"The researchers found that the relationship between cortex thickness and IQ varied with age, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, seat of abstract reasoning, planning, and other "executive" functions. The smartest 7-year-olds tended to start out with a relatively thinner cortex that thickened rapidly, peaking by age 11 or 12 before thinning. In their peers with average IQ, an initially thicker cortex peaked by age 8, with gradual thinning thereafter. Those in the high range showed an intermediate trajectory (see below). While the cortex was thinning in all groups by the teen years, the superior group showed the highest rates of change."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/40646.php
