flacaltenn
Diamond Member
The reason that most American Negroes have higher averages than African Negroes is because most American Negroes have some white ancestry.
Probably not. Because in the surveys I posted on Sub-Saharan diffs in Africa versus Europe, the INCREASE shows up in just a couple generations. AND the increase in IQ is MOSTLY at the LOW end. So -- heavily suspicious of it just being in an ENVIRONMENT that stimulates and challenges critical thinking, problem solving and the like.
Same could be said about the 1/4 of blacks in Americans -- if your numbers are right. The gang-bangers and their enablers are fairly UNEDUCATED given the damnable reports of near zero student proficiency for reading, writing, math in inner cities. Or the crappy graduation rates.
THAT'S environment also. You KIDNAP a bunch of those kids (they'll live longer and better lives) and REMOVE them from that environment, put them in quality military style schools and a supportive family -- go BACK and RESTEST their IQs in 6 years and they will be OUT of the lower quintiles of IQ.
I've always said -- you could take a bunch of Burger King employees at 16 or 17 who are looking at dropping out of school and turn them into STEM or other professions in six years or so. It's NOT TOO LATE at that age. It's a matter of MAKING them intellectual sponges. And seeing the VALUE self-fulfillment of education.
GUARANTEED. Because WE KNOW -- you can LOSE IQ points rather easily from DISUSE and MISUSE and ABUSE of your brain over time.
So -- like I said -- NOBODY WINS this discussion you want to have. And there is PLENTY of evidence that RACE is not the primary driver of IQ.
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