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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by concordDance on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:53AM (#25372310)
I'm reasonably sure that the vast majority of people would consider the statement "The average African American is less intelligent that the average "white" American, this is partially due to genes and cannot be entirely fixed without genetic engineering." to be textbook racism.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:42AM (#25373576)
Ah, but it's not so much about "less intelligent" than about "lower IQ", which assumes that IQ is actually a good measure of intelligence!
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by concordDance on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:48AM (#25373629)
Indeed it does. The question of how good a measure IQ is is an interesting one.

Scores on Raven's progressive matrices certainly correlate well with all sorts of things (working memory, income, ability to do computer programming, ability to write a popular story), so I guess it depends in how you are defining "intelligence".

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:06AM (#25374393)
According to Taleb, low IQ actually is... but not high IQ !
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by concordDance on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:58AM (#25375064)
Do you have a source for this? I can find him saying it could be true (if it weren't for test scores influencing later worklife via people judging you for them) but not actually saying it is true.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:39PM (#25377581)
You're right, I poorly formulated that sentence.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by tim333 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:40AM (#25373554)
Yeah but at least partly because it's probably untrue.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by concordDance on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:49AM (#25373638)
So if it was true it wouldn't be considered racist?
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by UnFleshedOne on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:37PM (#25376157)
It most likely would (considering all the things that are considered racist nowadays, which includes a set of all things and then some). But that's a descriptive statement, not normative. It really shouldn't be.
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