"If you took 50 babies from each ethnic group and raised them in a perfectly uniform place (e.g., island, cult, locked down school) to adulthood, you would not see any one group have superior performance on any task compared to any of the other groups"
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This is the statistics question rather than a genetic question. That said, certain drinking related tasks, as well as tasks involving the consumption of cheese would definitely be mastered on an ethnic basis.
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The academic embargo on the recent discoveries re the genetic basis for most behavior and group differences is probably the most fascinating ticking bomb in all of the social sciences.
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I don't know. But I think that the answer is unimportant. In fact, I think that this is a question to deliberately avoid answering. (But maybe it is worth knowing whether people think the answer is worth knowing.)
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Of course the answer is important, as it underpins a host of modern socio-political issues. However, it is not important in an ultimate sense, as it would have no bearing on the equal value of human life.
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There is a reason we require people who are doing "research" to be supervised and get an education.
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