Err, actually he’s talking about averages. If two groups differed by, say, 10 points in average IQ (2/3 of a standard deviation), the respective distributions would overlap quite a bit (more in-group than between-group variation), but the fraction of people with IQ above some threshold (e.g., >140) would be radically different.

That is the case with Ashkenazi Jews Psychologists and educational researchers have pegged their average IQ at 107.5 to 115. That’s only modestly higher than the overall European average of 100, but the gap is large enough to produce a huge difference in the proportion of geniuses. When a group’s average IQ is 100, the percentage of people above 140 is 0.4%; when the average is 110, the rate is 2.3%.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16867211

Genes infuence intelligence. And polymorphic genes vary in frequency amongst population groups. The candidate genes for cognitive function may also vary. Given natural selection, sexual selection and genetic drift it would be surprising if they didn’t.

Indeed, the handful of candidate gene variants so far identified as relating to cognitive function (rs2760118-C on SSADH, rs324650-T on CHRM2, and rs760761-C on DTNBP1, for example) are not distributed evenly among the populations sampled in the Hapmap.

In terms of athletics one example is the RR variant of ACTN3, a gene that affects fast generation of muscular force and correlates with excellence at speed and power sports. The opposite variant of the gene is called XX. Tests indicate that the ratio of people with RR to people with XX is 1 to 1 among Asians, 2 to 1 among European whites, and more than 4 to 1 among African-Americans.

Again, the claim here isn’t that your race determines your ability – but that at a group level they have different averages and at the upper end (for instance 100 metres) the top sprinters are predominantly of West African ancestry.

Why is this? Well, human evolution, rather than having stopped in the past 50,000 to 40,000 years, appears to have accelerated over the in the past 15,000- 10,000 years as groups adapted to agriculture and populations expanded. (Hawks et al 2007, Recent acceleration of human adaptive)evolution — PNAS).

The research indicates at least 7% of the genome has undergone recent selection.

A fair fraction of the changes are neurological and likely to affect behavior in some way. For example, you see new versions of SLC6A4, a serotonin transporter, in Europeans and Asians. There’s a new version of a gene (DAB1) that shapes the development of the layers of the cerebral cortex in east Asia (see Williamson et al June 2007 article from Plos Genetics, ‘Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome’.

Voight et al 2007 Plos Biology, ‘A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome’.

Until all the gene variants affecting cognitive function are identified the matter won’t be resolved scientifically, however, the evidence so far suggests genes occur in different frequencies amongst populations so average group differences may occur.

Rather than denying this progressive minded people need to develop a better moral framework.

That is what University of Chicago Geneticist Bruce Lahn & Lanny Ebenstein attempt to do in the latest edition of Nature with their paper entitled “Let’s Celebrate Human Genetic Diversity”. They write:

“Science is finding evidence of genetic diversity among groups of people as well as among individuals. This discovery should be embraced, not feared…

Equality of opportunity and respect for human dignity should be humankind’s common aspirations, notwithstanding human differences no matter how big or small. We also think that biological egalitarianism may not remain viable in light of the growing body of empirical data.”
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Not good enough to ask commenters for their ideas. You’re the one that KNOWS.

Following your correct logic, if the U.S. and its peculiar culture that reveres freedom and liberty decides in its
own culturally relativist way to nuke Iran, hey, who’s to argue with them? The cultural relativism that goes around, I guess,
comes around.

http://www.jihadwatch.org
Fitzgerald: Douce France

For a jihad is what — it is increasingly clear — France now faces…

Yes, you do notice more and more Muslims about you as you walk, no longer in the banlieues, but in the center of Paris, or Toulouse, or Lyon. And you remember how uneasy you felt, four years ago, when you happened to be walking on the Cannebière in Marseille. You decided, then and there, that you would not return. And you have friends who live in the south. And they tell you that the beurs – some call them maghrébins — make life hell for everyone.

They attack French children on the way to school. They vandalize cars. They threaten, and do more than threaten, anyone who is still foolish enough to walk out wearing a kippah or a cross. Whole areas of cities in the south, as in the north, and east, and west, have become off-limits to non-Muslims. In the schools, the teachers have lost authority. They cannot even cover the subjects of World War II, the Resistance, and the murders of the Jews as the state prescribes; they fear, with reason, the violent reaction of the Muslim students.

And as the schools become more and more dangerous for non-Muslim students and teachers, with more time and resources devoted to discipline rather than to learning, French parents and would-be parents are now silently factoring into their childbearing plans…those French people will plan on smaller families.

And they will also be factoring in the growing cost, paid by them, those French taxpayers, for the whole expanding edifice of security, the guards in the schools, the guards at the train stations and métro stations and airports and at government buildings everywhere, the costs of keeping the gravestones from being vandalized, the costs of protecting the synagogues and the churches, the costs for all those tapped phones and agents in mosques, and subsidies to lawyers and judges to hear charges and try cases against Muslims, and the costs of monitoring da’wa in the prisons (more than 50% Muslim).

But the Muslims are indifferent to expenses incurred by the French state. France is part of the world; the world belongs to Allah, and to his Believers. That doctrine has remained immutable for 1400 years. Imam Bouziane, the one they keep trying to deport, had 16 children by two wives, all living on the French state: a representative Muslim man.

You vacation in Normandy, or Brittany, or the Ile de Ré. And you do not take the metro often enough, or walk in the right districts, or work in the right factories or offices, to understand what tens of millions of your fellow Frenchmen now have to endure.

No one will mention what is happening or what kinds of things we must begin to think about doing to save ourselves…something has gone irreparably wrong with your country, and you, and your children, are in danger of losing that country, down to every village and house…France will have a majority Muslim population.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/11/fitzgerald-douce-france.html

Unless the Muslim immigration-invasion is stopped, France’s agony is the future for America and all Western nations. Future generations will NEVER forgive us.

Council on American-Islamic Relations: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” – Omar Ahmad (CAIR co-founder).

’“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
—Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne’s prophetic warning to Europe in a speech at the U.N. In 1974.

MUSLIM Demographics (very alarming)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

In Sweden, many Muslim youth wear a t-shirt proclaiming: “2030-then we take over”

The END of EUROPE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfOmQ4Eo_as

U.S. Airport Security Deliberately and Shockingly Destroyed for Islam:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com
Controversial Muslim group
gets VIP airport security tour
Feds show CAIR latest screening steps,
sensitive counterterrorism procedures
August 18, 2006

The Department of Homeland Security
took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation’s busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.

On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O’Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.

CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a “front group” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.

During the airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51573

IPC (Inoculation for political correctness)