The popular blank-slatist worldview is obvious BS and biodeterminst responses often fail to hold up to further scrutiny.My main reason for being so skeptical of both worldviews lie in black americans, who surpass their theoretical IQ by 9-10 points and, when raised by white families, can surpass it by 14-18 points despite being put up for adoption in the first place, which would imply greater idiocy of at least one parent. While american mullatos do happen to meet their theoretical IQ, that's only when ignoring the theoretical IQ of american blacks, not to mention that they also experience a boost of 4 IQ points when raised by white families.Please provide sources and address counterclaims for your opinions; my interest in race is purely scientific!
>>16807426It's obviously a combination of environment and biology. Childhood vocabulary exposure alone is a well known influence and I don't think it's a coincidence that hundreds of years later the descendants of African slaves with 30,000-word languages almost universally struggle to speak correctly inflected English. Meanwhile immigrant children of any other race often learn perfect unaccented English...
>>16807426>unbiasedNo such thing. And that's not even a bad thing.To he a bit less cheeky:Different population groups have a tendency towards different cognitive and behavioral patterns. Nobody important disputes this. Even the most "anti-racist" psychologists and population geneticists do not subscribe to blank slate theory.The sticking point is "race" as is typically defined. It's arbitrary and unscientific. There's going to be overlap between these population groups and "races" but there's overlap across them too. And no, this is not a spectrum fallacy.If you want to do science with human genetic populations, well-defined terms are necessary. "Race" is a heuristic at best.
>>16807543>And no, this is not a spectrum fallacy.Hand waving is not scientific.
>>16807543>Race == "Different population group"You're just referring to it with a new and different term each time because you dont want to offend, but you actually reveal that you can't do science (much less refer to it) without the concept of race. The nigs fall for this, at the very least educated white people won't.
