What is the end game for race realist?

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  1. ThirdTerm

    ThirdTerm Well-Known Member

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    For instance, the IQ gap between White Irish and Traveller Irish is purely environmental and Irish Travellers' IQ scores are below 90, which is similar to those who live in the Third World. Irish Travellers' educational status is considerably lower than that of their settled peers. For 54.8% of Travellers, primary school education is the highest level of education they obtained just like the vast majority of Third World immigrants. Irish Travellers are white gypsy people from Ireland who left the country in the last 1,600 years and they are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group who are genetically identical with White Irish. The 15-point gap in the IQ scores between White Irish and Traveller Irish cannot be indicative of genetic differences as Irish Travellers do not have links to Roma people.

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    Right, when we see an average IQ difference correlating with an environmental difference independent of any obvious genetic difference, it makes sense to attribute that IQ difference(tentatively, at least) to the environmental difference. For example, we would also attribute the 20 point difference between Blacks reared in Africa and Blacks reared in the US to the obvious environmental difference.

    By the same line of reasoning, when we see the 15 point difference between Blacks and Whites in the US correlating along ethnic, genetic lines, in the absence of any obvious environmental differences, it makes sense to attribute that difference(tentatively, at least) to what it correlates with.
     
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    Did you read the article I posted? Not only does it refute the genetic hypothesis with scientific reasoning it provides empirical evidence that the claim is false.
     

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