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Re:Watson’s Nobel Prize Medal for Decoding DNA Fetches $4.1M... by shamney on Friday December 05, 2014 @04:58AM (#8703675)
Why is he "flat out wrong" about the testing? African intelligence scores are much lower.
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Re:Watson’s Nobel Prize Medal for Decoding DNA Fetches $4.1M... by shamney on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:22AM (#8703727)
why would someone downvote this? I'm simply pointing out facts. For example, see this paper by Wicherts et al [1]: "Our estimate of average IQ converges with the finding that national IQs of sub-Saharan African countries as predicted from several international studies of student achievement are around 82."

[1]http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010IQAFR.pdf

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Re:Watson’s Nobel Prize Medal for Decoding DNA Fetches $4.1M... by seekingtruth on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:32AM (#8703758)
I'm getting downvoted for linking to Wikipedia. Facts don't matter on this topic.
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Re:Watson’s Nobel Prize Medal for Decoding DNA Fetches $4.1M... by shamney on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:43AM (#8703787)
the downvotes are quite amazing. this is just a basic factual matter -- nothing to do with whether watson's broader claims are true -- yet it seems some people are simply incapable of dealing with reality...
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Re:Watson’s Nobel Prize Medal for Decoding DNA Fetches $4.1M... by whorace on Friday December 05, 2014 @06:42PM (#8707619)
The same people who decry creationists as ignorant insist that evolution only works from the neck down.
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