[ExI] Section 230 and Antitrust

[William Flynn Wallace]

We could argue whether such diversity is good, or bad, or just unavoidable,
but the brute fact that the diversity of IQ exists should be just
accepted.  Rafal  Maybe odd but understandable:  people accept such things
as Black are superior athletes (at least at the upper tail of the
distribution) but when it comes to IQ people shut up and deny.   Since IQ
has a heritability of 1/2 or better it would be totally amazing if it was a
constant all over the world.  bill w

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:46 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 5:18 AM Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 20 Jan 2021, at 10:17, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:41 PM Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In general I post here when I feel I have something to contribute. But
>> sometimes my contributions of the past were to FLAME MIGHTILY IN YODA MODE
>> when others would make absurd claims such as "people of country X have an
>> average IQ of VERY VERY LOW".
>>
>>
>> ### But there are countries where the average IQ is very low, compared to
>> other countries. This is a well-verified fact, accepted by
>> psychometricians.
>>
>>
>> Some psychometricians …while most concentrate on factors like early
>> childhood nutrition, educational opportunities, presence/absence of
>> widespread conflict, etc.
>>
>
> ### So you say "It's absurd to claim people of country X have low IQ" and
> then in the next sentence you imply (paraphrasing here) "early childhood
> nutrition explains IQ differences".  You seem to speak of the measurement
> and then speak of the explanation of the results of measurement, and your
> statements on these two issues appear to be incongruous.
>
> As it is, measured intelligence differs between different countries. This
> is an established fact. Scientists do not argue about that fact anymore.
> The existing, unequivocal and significant differences can be explained by
> many factors, including nutrition and others, and the explanations are
> still under debate.
>
>
>  --------------------------
>
>>
>> Countries do publish their IQ measurements and no, they
>> are not all the same, and obviously some countries have lower IQ
>> populations. Instead of ranting, educate yourself.
>>
>> Don't deny science.
>>
>> Rafal
>>
>>
>> I don’t deny science, but I don’t see a causal connection between drawing
>> lines on a map and the functioning of neurons.
>>
>
>> Could you explain the mechanism?
>>
>>  ### People stick together with their own relatives. On a larger scale,
> cohesive social structures emerge among people sharing culture, which
> usually comes from shared ancestry, which implies shared genes. Different
> social structures coalesce out of genetically different populations, so
> different social groups will differ in their language, culture and yes,
> also intelligence. Drawing map lines helps here but is not necessary. It's
> the reproductive isolation that matters, which is why the Parsees, the
> Brahmin jatis and the Ashkenazim are smarter than their surrounding
> populations.
>
> We could argue whether such diversity is good, or bad, or just
> unavoidable, but the brute fact that the diversity of IQ exists should be
> just accepted.
>
> Rafal
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20210120/a5890048/attachment.htm>