My ding-a-ling-o-meter says no.The reason why Whites and East Asians have wider hips than Blacks, and so make poorer runners
is because they give birth to larger brained babies. During evolution, increasing cranial size meant women
had to have a wider pelvis. Further, the hormones that give Blacks an edge at sports makes them restless
in school and prone to crime.
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On average, Orientals are slower to mature, less fertile, and less sexually active, have larger
brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the opposite end in each of these areas. Whites fall in the
middle, often close to Orientals. The evidence shows that this is due to both genes and environment.
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Hundreds of studies on millions of people show a threeway
pattern. IQ tests are often made to have an average score of 100, with a “normal” range from 85 to
115. Whites average from 100 to 103. Orientals in Asia and the U.S. tend to have higher scores, about
106, even though IQ tests were made for use in the Euro-American culture. Blacks in the U.S., the
Caribbean, Britain, Canada, and in Africa average lower IQs -- about 85. The lowest average IQs are
found for sub-Saharan Africans -- from 70 to 75.
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In the U.S., Blacks are less than 13% of the population but have 50% of all arrests for assault and
murder and 67% of all arrests for robbery. Fifty percent of all crime victims also report their assailants are
Black, so the arrest statistics cannot be due to police bias.
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Blacks score higher on verbal tests than they do on nonverbal tests, and they do better on tests of
school knowledge than they do on tests of reasoning ability. From grades 1 to 12, Blacks fall just as far
below Whites in school work as they do on IQ tests. Blacks score below even more disadvantaged groups,
such as American Indians. Again, this is not what culture theory predicts.
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Can heritability tell us anything about the differences between races? Yes, a lot! Studies show that
when the heritability is high in Whites, it is also high in Orientals and Blacks. When it is low in Whites, it
is also low in Orientals and Blacks. For example, the heritability of IQ is about 50% for Blacks, Orientals,
and other groups, just as it is for Whites. So there is a genetic basis for intelligence in all three races.
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The evidence for genetic theory got stronger as the children grew older. By age 17, the IQs of the
adopted children moved closer to the expected average for their race. At age 17 adopted White children
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had an IQ of about 106, Mixed-Race adoptees an IQ of about 99, and adopted Blacks had an IQ of about
89. IQ scores are not the only evidence in this study. School grades, class ranks, and aptitude tests show
the same pattern.
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Race, Evolution and Behaviour: A Life History Perspective
by Professor Philippe J. Rushton
http//www.amazon.com/...
So. Asian people = inherently more intelligent that white people = inherently more intelligent than black people?
If you subscribe to the theory of evolution, I don't see how you can deny that race can determine average intelligence.
