Quote:
Quote by: Calam  *
1)You just said right here that the Human race is a single race. So why are you suggesting that racial differences correspond to intelligence levels? Which races? Be clear. By racial do you mean evolutionary? Then by your own words, we're all the same race.
2)Obviously, we've developed different levels of intelligence. The real question here is whether intelligence in humans carries any other common factors. Do white people have higher rates of intelligence than black people? Do people with big ears learn slower than people with pointy ears?
3)Then the question must be asked; what is intelligence? Is there more than one kind of intelligence? What makes someone "more" intelligent than someone else? How do we rate it? How do we prove it? How can we test it? Who decides it?
4)You would have to then index a workable percentage of the entire human population on planet Earth--that's a massive amount of human beings--and then order them by thousands and thousands of possible characteristics and variables--that's trillions of units of data--and then look for common factors. You'd have to include everything, just in case there is a connection (or multiple connections). Then, if no common factors are found, you would have to expand the number of variables and categories about each human being further and further, looking for a potential hidden relationship. Only when every percievable variable about humanity and individuality has been examined can you then determine whether or not a connection definitively exists.
A few passing studies of small percentages (as compared to a global population) do not account for 1/1000th of .0001% of the possible data. To sample a few thousand--or even a few million--people from one country (or several countries) to determine a loose connection based on a narrow range of variables will not give you sufficient data to make such a drastic comparison. When it comes to intelligence, all factors must be determined, all definitions conceded upon, and all percentages accounted for. Otherwise, everything else is conjecture.It simply cannot be done. There are too many unanswered questions for a link between race and intelligence to be proven. Is it possible? Maybe. But there's no way to test it, so it shouldn't be assumed in any case. |
1) No, I did NOT say we are all the same race. I said " that all living humans are all descended from an initial "prototype" of human, that is a single race... ". Just because were DESCENDED from a single race doesn't mean we haven't diverged into different races now.
2) Look, human communities have been diverging for around 50 000 years, long enough that physical differences have emerged between the races- its seems foolish to suggest mental differences haven't as well...
3) Partly through standardized tests(such as IQ), and partly through common sense.
4) No, this is unneccesarily pedantic. Statistical or scientific research is never held to as strenuous standards as you describe above.
Quote:
Quote by: Morality Games That's what I mean when I say there is no evidence of tweaks. |
YES THEIR ARE. You want evidence of tweaks? Look at the multiple physical differences between races which I listed on page 4.
I would consider these physical "tweaks" to directly imply mental differences. If such significant gaps have emerged in the physical characteristics of humans, can it reasonably be suggested that no mental ones have? I would question whether it is even possible for physical differences to exist without mental differences, given that the mind is a part of the physical body.
Quote:
Quote by: Gods_Mercenary There is no such thing as racially pure in the real world. I can't pretend to do a genetic examination of a past civilisation. |
Ok, it doesn't have to be totally pure, just reasonably black.
In any case, you had no issue with mentioning Carthage of the top of your head in your original post. So go on, try and find an example, don't cop out. And I will try to rebut your example.
Guess what, you can't find an example, because their isn't one.