1) I refer you to my professional organization's statement on race. Would fit the minimalist approach I would say, but bioanth people often prefer the term "biological ancestry" to avoid the social implications of the term "race" http://physanth.org/about/position-statements/biological-aspects-race/ …
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It's true that most people don't know how genes work. Molecular genetics upends people's assumptions about how genes work. Read Denis Noble.
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I simply disagree with the strange jumps from "human variation exist" (which I agree with) to "migration is bad" or "IQ test score variation is the reason for class stratification."
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The really big picture is that genetic differences cause differences in intelligence among different groups of people, which results in different standards of living in different countries. IQ is strongly linked to the material wealth of nations.
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Where is the genetic evidence? Heritability doesn't show causation. So that's out of the question.
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There is genetic evidence and you know it. eg https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3869 … As well as twin studies and adoption studies, which are in fact useful for determining how much genetic influence there is on a trait.
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Twin studies and adoption studies are highly flawed. GWAS can't show causation.
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Yes, and skin color, height, weight, sprinting ability, swimming ability, etc. are all randomly distributed across all human groups too
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Those are verifiable traits with actual tests for them which is a far cry from IQ.
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Is "ability to build / maintain complex civilizations" in the aggregate not enough of a test of the individuals involved? So we scrap the concept of IQ. So what? Blacks are still just "dumb" and "aggressive" compared to whites. At least at the layman's psychometric level.
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