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[joes33431]

[QUOTE=kurgan;46494069]Without having time to read in detail, I would point out that it was not Rushton who advanced the hypothesis that the B/W difference was g-loaded as this article claims, but Spearman and Jensen ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman's_hypothesis]in fact that's what it's called on Wikipedia[/url]). Furthermore I notice a glaring omission in the discussion of Saudi Arabian test scores. The data shows gains among young Saudis, but they peter out by adulthood, as if this is a challenge to the hereditarian hypothesis. The authors suggest it is due to poor secondary schooling, without even mentioning [url=http://i.imgur.com/5YVzQdM.png]the obvious and well-known phenomenon of increasing heritability with age.[/url]

On top of that, it's not as if the Spearman effect is the only evidence for genetic basis for the B/W gap, e.g. transracial adoption studies, admixture analysis, and GWAS (currently a trickle but will be a flood in about a decade).

And yeah, the gap is closing, but there are diminishing returns to it.[/QUOTE]

the race-intelligence debate is honestly beyond my knowledge scope as a high-school student; i'll leave it to the academics and wait until a firm consensus is established, if that day ever comes. if the differences are genetic, however, that certainly doesn't justify discrimination from a policy standpoint; no doubt, you probably aren't arguing for discrimination anyway, but simply providing an explanation of causation regarding a controversial issue.

[kurgan]

[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;46494085]if heritability increasing with age was relevant to this analysis, wouldn't it show itself among every group's results and not just the one's?[/QUOTE]

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It does show itself among every group. I was talking about their reference to Saudi scores in particular, as if that result needed a special environmental explanation unique to Saudi Arabia instead of the more general hereditarian explanation.

[editline]15th November 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=joes33431;46494110]the race-intelligence debate is honestly beyond my knowledge scope as a high-school student; i'll leave it to the academics and wait until a firm consensus is established, if that day ever comes. if the differences are genetic, however, that certainly doesn't justify discrimination from a policy standpoint; no doubt, you probably aren't arguing for discrimination anyway, but simply providing an explanation of causation regarding a controversial issue.[/QUOTE]

That's pretty much it.

On its own, it doesn't support any policy. At most it negates the justification for any policy to the extent it is predicated on cognitive uniformity.