"Out of all ethnic groups, no one ethnic group is, on average, superior at any task compared to any other ethnic groups after adjusting for culture and environment. As in, while environment might impact outcomes, there's no actual genetic/innate biological difference"
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There seems to be pretty good evidence that the native people of Tibet are, on average, better at dealing with high altitudes, and that this ability has a genetic basis:
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The Bajau people also appear to have acquired genes that make them superior freedivers.
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If you average it out, then it would surprise me if they was zero difference. I think the differences inside demographics tend to be bigger than between them though, and I don't think statistical differences between demographics should change how we treat individuals.
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It seems unlikely to me to be zero, but I do think it's less than intra-group variance. I definitely agree it shouldn't change how we treat individuals.
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There must be some difference, take any random group of people, one group will be superior at some things and inferior at others.
The real questions are: how much difference is there and how significant is it?
IMO given how closely related we all are, for the most part not much.
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Isn't it kind of an insane assumption that evolution has tailored different populations to different environments over time, affecting a thousand measurable and verifiable characteristics, but for some magical reason it left the brains out of the game?
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Ethiopians can run long distances more efficiently due to many generations of selection pressure for traits beneficial for that specific task
Swedish people will be better than Mexican people at reaching the top shelf of a closet
This is a silly poll
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This is true for most tasks and probably all intellectual tasks but there are certainly some athletic tasks that some races are genetically better at then others on average. Even if height was the only difference in race this would be true.
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