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Re: Racial intelligence is both a result of nature & nurture

June 17th, 2012, 8:36 pm

Incidentally, there is a very good article by the Guardian newspaper called "Channel 4 to stoke race debate", which was published on Wednesday 14 October 2009. To find this article, I think you have to put "Race and intelligence+Guardian+channel 4" in the search engine. To summar...

Annotation

June 17th, 2012, 10:20 am

Footnote : This article is hinged on the conjectural premise that intelligence is like any other phenotypic trait, which is not wholly a function of environmental variables; but on the contrary, intelligence is to some degree biologically determined, which is strongly correlated with racial classif...

Racial intelligence is both a result of nature & nurture

June 12th, 2012, 6:09 pm

8) Racial intelligence is like any other human trait, which is a complex interaction between a person's genetic makeup AND the environment in which a person is socialized. Consequently, those who argue that racial intelligence has no biological component are extremely likely to be mistaken. Although...

Kin Selection and Genetic Similarity Theory

January 3rd, 2012, 1:45 pm

:idea: J.P. Rushton's Genetic Similarity Theory is not widely appraised by the mainstream of the scientific establishment in North America, Europe & Australia. Rushton and a small handful of collaborators at the University of Western Ontario have tried to reinterpret the general theory of Kin Se...

Cultural Relativism and the Theory of Universals.

October 8th, 2011, 3:34 pm

Historically, in the last 500 years of Western colonial empires, and US hegemony in the present tense, there is a pervasive belief among the social hegemonic group as well as other groups, that Western civilization is superior and more technologically advanced than any other civilization. Historical...

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