Understanding Trump's Use of Language
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That is good advice but it is obvious that you have not followed it. The facts do not confirm your racial bias.You need to check your facts before you open your mouth on a scientific issue like this.
The following article by Hank Pellissier of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies looks at the reasons for the low test results.
Six Brain-Damage Scourges that Cripple IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/ ... er20120307
Disease - Malaria, Diarrhea, Tuberculosis, Intestinal Worms (helminth infections)
Violence - Civil Strife, Domestic Violence, Child Sexual Abuse, Female Genital Mutilation
Malnutrition - Iodine Deficiency, Iron Deficiency (anemia), Lack of Breastfeeding
Poverty
Pollution - Lead Poisoning, Air Pollution (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons)
Illiteracy
As to genetics it points to - Sickle-cell disease, Cousin marriage (consanguinity)
The findings of a study published in Scientific American reached similar conclusion:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... me-places/
So far, the evidence suggests that infectious disease is a primary cause of the global variation in human intelligence.
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It’s more about prenatal development. The so called “cultural” bias IQ tests is negligiable and/or in some tests almost completelt irradicated.
The “culture” argument against IQ tests is almost completelt unfounded. The kind of IQ tests I’m talking about don’t require literacy or cultural knowledge. The general knowledge type questions with the written word involved test for people who were born and lived in an environment - thus it shows, roughly, how people absorb common knowledge.
The disease issue and nutrition ALL relate to prenatal development. Especially cortisol. High cortisol, or proclivity to produce cortisol, will be passed on to the next few generations. This essentially means that if you took people from such regions and placed them in a western country with health care and good nutrition then it wouldn’t improve their potential IQ score because that was determined before they were born to a much larger degree. Their daughters’s, daughter’s children, given they have a reasonably decent life will not suffer the knock-on effects of prenatal cortisol.
If you took any group of people and put them in an enivronment of high stress then over a few generations IQ rate would drop dramatically. The “latent” intelligence is still there it is simply inhibited by hormonal responses to envirnomentsl cues (remember, this means the mother, her blood and how it affects the development of a fetus.)
Note: All this harks back to the incredibly confusing term “heritability”
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Has a new kind of IQ test been developed? It the IQ tests I have always known of definitely have built in cultural bias.Burning ghost wrote: ↑November 1st, 2018, 1:29 amThe kind of IQ tests I’m talking about don’t require literacy or cultural knowledge. The general knowledge type questions with the written word involved test for people who were born and lived in an environment - thus it shows, roughly, how people absorb common knowledge.
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Usually tests are set up to to test ability and precision, abstract thought and pattern recognition. None of these things are culturally exclusive. If you’re referring to language then literacy can play a part, but there are tests that require minimal verbal instruction.
If you have questions about US history or TV shows then that is obviously culturally bias. Within a set “cultural environment” those types of questions ca be useful as they show how well people absorb information (it’s not ideal though because that liley says more about personality type - proclivity to socialise - more than “intelligence”.)
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(A) I that the issue of race and IQ has important implications for social policy. For instance when you are looking at a white- majority nation like the US where the average IQ of the White American is about 100 points , then the prospect of encouraging mass immigration for sub-Saharan African republics for cheap labour must be ruled out. This is because the average IQ if the black inhabitants of these States hovers around 70 point, which according the official diagnostic criteria set down for psychiatrists in the US represents mild mental retardation. When you inject large numbers of adults who have mild mental retardation into an advanced modern technological Western society like North America the inevitable result consequence will be chaos and disaster across every major domain of life activity. So, for both the benefit of the mainstream white population and that of the prospective black African immigrants segregation is the only humane policy. Australia provides a shocking and profoundly tragic example of what happens when a native population of black aboriginals with an extremely low average IQ ( 64 points) are permitted to intermingle freely in a White /European -majority society where the average IQ is much higher: mass unemployment, chronic welfare dependency, high rates of drug abuse, endemic domestic violence, high prevalences of psychiatric and medical illness, high rates of youth suicide, shortened life expectancy, high rates of criminality ( esp violent) and incarceration, high numbers of homeless individuals, educational failure, endemic family dysfunction/breakdown and child abuse, and the list goes on and on.
(B) With regard to the gross anatomy of the African Negro many features are unmistakably Ape-like, for instance:
(1) The Negro skull in addition to having a smaller brain volume, and thicker cranial bones than that of a White, is Prognathious; i.e; the lower face projects forward in the manner of an animal's muzzle. The Negro jaw is substantially longer, relative to its width, than the white jaw. A feature of the Negro lower jaw is its retention of a vestige of the "Simian Shelf", a bony region immediately behind the incisors. The "Simian Shelf" is a distinguishing characteristic of Apes, and it is absent in Whites.
(2) They emit a peculiar offensive body odour similar to Apes.
(3) The arms and legs of the Negro are relatively longer than the White European. The humerus is shorter and the forearm longer, thereby approximating the Ape form.
(4) The eye often has a yellowish scierotic coat over it like that of the gorilla.
(5) the Negro has a shorter trunk; the cross-section of the chest is more circular than in Whites. Similar to an Ape.
(6) The pelvis is narrower and longer as it is in an Ape.
(7) The Negro has a larger and shorter neck akin to that of Apes.
(8) The ears are roundish, rather small, standing somewhat high and detached thus approaching the Ape form.
(9) The jaw is larger and stronger and protrudes outward which, along with the retreating forehead, gives a facial angle of 68 - 70 degrees, like an Ape, as opposed to a facial angle of 80 - 82 degrees for White Europeans.
(10) The three curvatures of the spine are less pronounced in the Negro than in the White and thus more characteristic of an Ape.
(11) The two bones of the nose are occasionally united as in Apes. Nose often "flattened" as it is in primates.
(12) In "The Descent of Man", Charles Darwin stated that the Negros are so distinct that similar differences found in any other animal would warrant their classification as a different species.
(C) I am not sure at all what you're getting at in your last paragraph when you refer to me ( Dachshund) personally? So let me simply say this... As a White man living in the West my concern is that (1) immigration policy must always be tailored to minimize the number of individuals of any foreign ethic/racial grouping whose average IQ is substantially lower ( i.e. 20 to 30 points or more) than the average White IQ ( which is about 100 points) who are permitted to legally reside in any of the major Anglophone Nation States ( USA, UK, Australia, etc.) and (2) where there are sizable numbers such persons who have acquired legal citizenship, very careful thought must be given to the drafting and mode of implementation of social policies in order that will be effectively prevented from inflicting any kind of of harm/burden on: the State in general; its statutory institutions (legal,educational political, etc.); the healthy functioning of the economy, the State's dominant cultural values/customs/traditions, the general welfare of members of mainstream society, and so on.
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Citing Literature
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Volume105, Issue1
March 2003
Pages 65-76
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Dachshund might come to understand that the politics of power relations are now understood to have influenced 19th century anthropologists. This problem is now addressed by modern anthropologists, including physical anthropologists.
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This article is shortish and accessible to people who have not studied physical anthropology.
If Dachshund wishes he can study the anthropologist Franz Boas who added knowledge about the influence of culture upon physical characteristics , including bony structures. Here is an exerpt:
Physical variations in any given trait tend to occur gradually rather than abruptly over geographic areas. And because physical traits are inherited independently of one another, knowing the range of one trait does not predict the presence of others. For example, skin color varies largely from light in the temperate areas in the north to dark in the tropical areas in the south; its intensity is not related to nose shape or hair texture. Dark skin may be associated with frizzy or kinky hair or curly or wavy or straight hair, all of which are found among different indigenous peoples in tropical regions. These facts render any attempt to establish lines of division among biological populations both arbitrary and subjective.
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Dachshund does not wish to study or even look at anything that does not conform to his racial/political biases.
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