On Jun 4, 2:30 am, Your name wrote:
>> On Jun 3, 12:19 pm, RichAsianKid
hotmail.com> wrote:>>> That's what science research says. I'm just connecting the dots here
>>> so everyone can see the big picture.
>
>> Good science is less about connecting "the dots" than
>> about investigating the logically related questions
>> that are generated with by the resulting data.
>
>>> * * Dark Skin Correlates With Low Economic Growth (and by
>>> implication, third world poverty!) * *
>
>> The oppression fueled by racism has also correlated with low economic
>> growth
>> and -by historical accounts- to today's third world poverty.
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>>> And it's due to lower IQ and thus lower scholastic achievements!
>
>
>>> I bet some black posters will have a fit when they see this. But
>>> again, truth hurts. The evidence is all there staring in your face in
>>> peer-reviewed journals.
>>> -------
>
>>> Relevant abstracts:
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>>> (1) Dark Skin correlates with Lower IQ
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>>> Title: Temperature, Skin Color, Per Capita Income, and IQ: An
>>> International Perspective
>>> Authors: Templer, Donald I.; Arikawa, Hiroko
>
>>> Abstract: The impetus for our study was the contention of both
>>> Lynn
>>> [Lynn, R. (1991) "Race differences in intelligence: A global
>>> perspective." "Mankind Quarterly," 31, 255-296] and Rushton [Rushton,
>>> J. P. (1995). "Race, evolution and behavior: A life history
>>> perspective." New Brunswick, NJ: "Transaction"; Rushton, J. P. (1997).
>>> "Race, intelligence, and the brain: The errors and omissions of the
>>> revised edition of S.J. Gould's the mismeasurement of man."
>>> "Personality and Individual Differences," 23, 169-180; Rushton, J. P.
>>> (2000). "Race, evolution, and behavior. A life history
>>> perspective" (3rd edition). Port Huron: Charles Darwin Research
>>> Institute] that persons in colder climates tend to have higher IQs
>>> than persons in warmer climates. We correlated mean IQ of 129
>>> countries with per capita income, skin color, and winter and summer
>>> temperatures, conceptualizing skin color as a multigenerational
>>> reflection of climate. The highest correlations were -0.92 (rho =
>>> -0.91) for skin color, -0.76 (rho = -0.76) for mean high winter
>>> temperature, -0.66 (rho = -0.68) for mean low winter temperature, and
>>> 0.63 (rho = 0.74) for real gross domestic product per capita.
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>> If colder air temperature makes one smarter -
>> wouldn t air conditioning raise a person's IQ
>> and a hot sauna lower a person's IQ?
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>> Does a person's IQ drop if they are tested in a very hot room?
>> how hot would it have to be for their IQ to drop if it does?
>> Does a person's IQ increase if they are tested in a cold room?
>> how cold would it have to be for their IQ to increase if it does?
>> RFLOL.
>
>> but seriously RAK ...
>
>> Statistical analysis
>> is more useful in formulating questions
>> (for a future hypothesis to be tested)
>> than it is in asserting or discovering
>> a biological fact or conclusion.
>
>> Statistics by
>> its very nature is probablistic and inductive
>> rather than mechanical and deductive.
>
>> What you call "connecting the dots" (deductive reasoning)
>> using statistics evidence is a foolhardy leap in faith
>> for a pet theory --- often called "bad" science. (9_9)
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> Countries with a hot climate
>
> Medditerraian - parts of France,Spain, Portugal;parts of Italy, Greece,
> The middle East and Turkey, Most of the Rest of Asia;Austraila; and of
> course Africa
>
> Would one expect that the IQ in all those regions to be lower?-
Of course not.
