Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic

[Heimdallr]

The American Psychological Association published a study in 2005 showing that IQ differences along racial lines are more genetic than the result of environment... A 60-page review of the scientific evidence, some based on state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain size, has concluded that race differences in average IQ are largely genetic.

"Neither the existence nor the size of race differences in IQ are a matter of dispute, only their cause," write the authors. The Black-White difference has been found consistently from the time of the massive World War I Army testing of 90 years ago to a massive study of over 6 million corporate, military, and higher-education test-takers in 2001.

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Related: The book IQ and Wealth of Nations by Dr. Richard Lynn and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, father of the Finnish Prime Minister, studies the average IQ of 81 countries around the world. The top 10 countries with the highest average IQs are all in the Pacific Rim and Europe. The bottom 10 are all located in Sub-Saharan Africa. In countries like Jamaica, where the population is of Sub-Saharan decent with little to no Caucasian admixture, the average IQ is similar to that of the Sub-Sahara.

Photo Below: Picture of the “Cape Cod Coloreds,” urbanized South Africans who have significant admixture of British, Dutch, and Indian(from India) blood. The “coloreds” constitute about 10% of the population of South Africa. Their average IQ mimics American blacks (who also have a large Caucasian admixture) and not other Sub-Saharan Africans.




IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen

[Menydh]

I think that those are Cape Malays, not Cape Coloureds. Cape Malays were a mixture of San (Bushmen) or Khoi (Hottentots) , Indonesian and Dutch (via early Afrikaners settlers). Not Indian and I doubt it that British (the British in South Africa followed a pattern of segregation that included even the Dutch).

They live in Cape Town, not in Cape Cod.

Coloureds (not "Coloreds") are just Mulattos of Black and Dutch (or German, in Namibia).

Coloureds in South Africa are also known as Brown Afrikaners, as they speak Afrikaans (which they have influenced in its development away from Dutch) and have retained their Afrikaner culture.

[Menydh]

By the way, this should not be in the Anthropology forum but in the Genetics forum. It doesn't take much to figure.

[Monolith]

Originally Posted by Heimdallr

Related: The book IQ and Wealth of Nations by Dr. Richard Lynn and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, father of the Finnish Prime Minister, studies the average IQ of 81 countries around the world. The top 10 countries with the highest average IQs are all in the Pacific Rim and Europe. The bottom 10 are all located in Sub-Saharan Africa. In countries like Jamaica, where the population is of Sub-Saharan decent with little to no Caucasian admixture, the average IQ is similar to that of the Sub-Sahara.

This actually doesn't prove anything. The IQ testing is performed using standardized tests, in which certain pattern always repeats. Furthermore, you cannot possibly measure one's intelligence using the score from the IQ test, because the intelligence itself is way more complicated, and possibly divided into several branches.
In addition, the title of this thread would imply that the differences are "largely genetic", but no genes(or even gene loci) were detected, that are responsible for the human intelligence.

Human brain is much more complex, to measure its intelligence by the means of primitive IQ testing.
I'd even compare that with a Neanderthal trying to run a nuclear power plant.

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

To sum it up: the pseudo-"science" pursued by arrogant quacks. (Lynn and co.)

[Menydh]

Well, the "Related" added part does indeed rest credibility to the whole thing. Notice that the post is copied and pasted from a site called the Council of Conservative Citizens, which is the one that apparently added the "Related" bit to the article

IQ differences in race are "largely genetic" says medical publication. | Council of Conservative Citizens

and which, from what I've read through their site, it has all the looks of a WN attempt not to look much WN (yes, there's being some moves into that direction, from what I've heared, while still retaining the "real freak" in other sites).

However, the claim of the genetic association is credible, or it states the obvious if you prefer it. Even when IQ test results have an important percentage of variables that is not concerned to anything related to genetics, but to social environment among others.

Having said that, I do not think that these claims, whatever you make of them, are important or relevant to the issue of concern. Which is to us here that of ethnic preservation.

So only under a strict American mentality can one understand that such things may become central to any political idea.. or pretended ideal. In other words, since we are about nothing, let us waste time while we can.

Leaving this on a side, what I would call the attention upon from the publication of such articles among certain circles in the internet and outside of it, is the lack of publication of similar or parallel articles pointing to such issues within more homogenous populations (say ethnic or para-ethnic groups). But of course this could be not all that convenient to the said circles, as its analysis and discussion would very likely stir internal troubles and unveil a few uncomfortable realities that right now are hidden behind the focusing of attention on the articles that are more... commercial? at least for a given public.