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Sorry about the thread hijack.

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I'm not =P The OP was pretty much absurd.

And I guess I have some issue with the "fact" of the relative IQ of all these races. I am not convinced that IQ (or any test, in fact) can accurately calculate "natural intelligence," whatever that actually means. This doesn't make it a useless test -- it just makes it limited.

I guess what I'm saying is, by the time children can be given an IQ test with any degree of accuracy, environmental factors have already substantially affected the development of the brain of the child. So it may not be the case that Blacks are *necessarily* less intelligent than whites -- it may simply be the case that, on average, blacks grow up in poverty more often than whites, and are therefore more often negatively affected by environmental standards, before (and probably after) they take their first IQ test.

Anyway, something to think about. Thanks for replying to my post though =).


And yeah, as a country we are way too PC. But generally the anti-PC people are anti-PC to a fault as well (because, I guess, they are trying to prove a point). There has to be a happy medium in there.