blacks are less intelligent than whties

My apologies if the response isn't well-organized, I was rushed. At least it's sourced, eh?---Definition of Intelligence:"capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc" [01].---Responses:1P1: "general consensus among scientists as published in the Wall Street Journal in 1994 titled "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" shows a consensus among scientists that average IQ are as followed in America. Blacks 85. Whites 100. East Asians 106."First off, the report that you cite shows that 52 psychologists and other human intelligence specialists agreed on something, NOT that a consensus was reached [02]. As Wikipedia states, scientific consensus is "the collective ... position ... of the community of scientists in a particular field of study. Consensus implies general agreement, though not necessarily unanimity" [03]. If 50.00001% of intelligence specialists agreed on this position, then consensus would have been reached. However, this study did NOT establish said required consensus.Second off, this report only talks about American Blacks, Whites, and Asians [02]. This means that biases resulting from the types of persons who would immigrate play into this2I'll discuss these disparities in detail later.---1P2: "Further studies done and published in science journals show IQ to be overwhelmingly genetic. Minnesota Twins Study by Dr. Thomas Bouchard, the most famous twin study done, shows that identical twins separated at birth are significantly more similiar in IQ than fraternal twins raised together with a genetic correlation of .80."First off, the assumption that genes determine what a person is going to be is flawed [04]. Genes influence what a person will become, but do not determine them.Second, some relatively-small portion of IQ is genetic, but much of the remainder is determined by the living conditions of a person. Bad water supply, low levels of food, disease, lead poisoning, education, a supportive family, and much more can all change a person's intelligence [05][06][07][08]. ---1P3: "Cranial size studies show published in the science journal Intelligence 1997, 25, pg 15 shows the average cranial size as followed. Blacks 1,267 cm3. Whites 1347 cm3. East Asians 1364 cm3. The link between cranial size and intelligence are strongly established in several scientific studies published in journals. "Brain Size and Cognitive Ability" in the 1996 issue of the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review surveyed all the published research on this topic. It included studies that used the state-of-the-art technique known as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) which gives a very good image of the human brain. There were eight of these studies with a total sample size of 381 adults. The overall correlation between IQ and brain size measured by MRI is 0.44."First off, a correlation of 0.44? That's less than the correlation between the number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool annually and the number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in that year, or 0.67 [09]. It's a rather low level of strength of correlation [10].Second off, the measurements that Rushton used in his study weren't based on MRI scanning but on external and postmortem measurements, which are quite faulty [11].Third off, the correlation between IQ and brain size is around 0.20, not 0.44 [11].---1P4: "So why are Asians smarter? More specifically Northeast Asians? The scientific theories among scientists today hold the notion that the humans that left Africa 110,000 years ago into colder climates of Europe and Northern Asia required more thought and planning to obtain food than that of Africa. And that Northern Asia had more drastic temperatures than that of Europe. It's evolution at work."First off, they aren't.Second off, the reason why Asians in America are often more intelligent is because many of them were self-selected immigrants high in intelligence and occupational aptitude [12]. However, many Asian-Americans who emigrated because of famine or war and are thus more representative of the Asian population as a whole have quite average intelligence and aptitude [12].---Disparities:It's clear that genetics, and thus race, do not determine the entirety (or even the majority) of a person's IQ [05][06][07][08]. So why do disparities exist between persons of different races in America?First off, because of cultural differences. The IQ test relies on certain culturally "correct" ideas to determine intelligence, and is thus culture-dependent [13][16]. This causes many immigrants, notably Black ones, who are by and large more intelligent than the average person, to do worse on IQ tests [14].Second off, because of wealth. As pointed out earlier [07][08], poverty and its effects cause a lot of change in the growth of the brain and prevent it from being fully sized or developed, which makes them perform worse in IQ tests [15]. However, as the wealth and education of the poor increases, so does their IQ [17]. 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