Special Ed,
While I have - or perhaps had (in response to your recent attacks) - some degree of respect for you, your attempted pogrom targeted at both myself and my business interests is becoming tiresome; it has revealed you as a rather pathetic, untrustworthy character.
First of all Special Ed, you cannot link to any post of mine that is not based on established fact - certainly nothing that would fail to hold up in court - so please, put a stop to your hammy-styled Alan Dershowitz act.
I understand that facts and hard science are not your game, so I will explain my position FOR THE FINAL TIME; any further posts from you will be construed as baiting and ignored from now on, unless you give me some substance.
Most all credible scientists in this area (Pinker, Dawkins, Risch, Harpending et al) believe that intelligence is 80% heritable; Indeed, Pinker even endorses the CHH paper and therefore states that it's a myth that race and intelligence don't exist, that they are driven largely by [80%] genetic factors.
Pinker in a conference at the Institute for Jewish Research covering the CHH hypothesis stated the following:
- The Jewish IQ advantage is largely heritable. Pinker noted the irony that even the existence of intelligence is not recognized by many intellectuals. "I find it remarkable that intellectuals deny that intelligence exists because intellectuals are obsessed with intelligence."
Pinker though quickly pointed out that a blue-ribbon panel appointed by the American Psychological Association defined the consensus view as embracing intelligence as a real and stable property; that IQ is a good measure of it; that it is a good predictor of success in life; and it is from 50 - 80% heritable. Pinker pointed out that twin and adoption studies have shown that whatever the environmental causes may be, family upbringing is not among them. Whether it's twins reared apart or adoptees vs. birth-children, there's nothing about the parents or siblings that seem to matter; the evidence for environmental influence on IQ is weaker than the genetic evidence.
- The Ashknazim were highly endogamous with very little outbreeding
- Money lending was the primary occupation were ones where intelligence provided a distinct advantage, thus saw the jews gravitate to said vocation
- Financial success translated into reproductive success - i.e., more children. Unlike today, in the past - before the Demographic Transition in the 18th century, more wealth meant more children.
- Ashkenazim are associated with unusually high frequencies of certain rare genetic diseases; The prevalence of these disorders has often been attributed to drift - i.e, random mutations occurring within a genetically isolated populations. But CHH calculate the odds of such random mutations clustering around sets of related genes as improbably low; these mutations show tell-tale signs of selection.
- That the presence of these diseases are associated with increased intelligence. There is already evidence that one Ashkenazi disease, Torsion Dystonia, is clearly associated with elevated IQ
So there you go Special Ed, take Pinker to court.
This was never about supremacy, it has always been about hard science and truth.
For the slow here:
RACE AND INTELLIGENCE EXIST AND THEY ARE GENETIC IN NATURE.Special Ed, you (as with that imbecile Horton) have graphically demonstrated a) your recourse to nothing other than ad hominem, and b) your inability to read my previous posts - specifically the ones that contained links to elite academics (from Lynn through Dawkins, from Harpending through Pinker) from several different fields (from genetics through psychometric testing).
It makes my cringe to hear you attempting to validate your position here; you clearly know nothing of this subject and are merely being shown up as the parasitic bottom feeding lawyer you are; It's hilarious in the extreme to watch you engage in such antics while simultaneously overlooking the views of James Watson (you do know who he was?)
All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really
"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fury-at-dna-pioneers-theory-africans-are-less-intelligent-than-westerners-394898.htmlThe above quote from James Watson - THE WORLD'S FOREMOST MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST.
The intellectual landscape (based on bullshit such as Lewontin's Fallacy) had previously been structured to eradicate controversial hypotheses out a priori (race does not exist, intelligence does not exist, the mind is a blank slate inscribed by parents) yet - as always - truth is winning; and academics of such stature as the above names are no longer bothered about stating such facts.
So there you go Ed, please carry on at your own convenience, the peanut gallery members are waiting.
This will be my final post on this topic in THIS thread. If anyone wants to continue this discussion with me, take it to the politics board or PM. The only comments you see of me in this thread from this point forward are going to be about M3 and jerking off the dudes at BB.com through praise.