"By age 12, 99 percent of boys know some other boy who is a faster runner than them. The 1 percent who don’t keep competing at running until they meet somebody they can’t ever beat." https://www.takimag.com/article/appeal-to-authority/ … ...
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"and therefore race-based hierarchies are the only rational course for any sane society" - Am I getting this right, Prof. Land?
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"Admit that East Africans are good at long distance running and Hitler will have won." -- The world looks a very scary place from certain weird angles. ...
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Why don't white guys, with their greater access to resources, always beat black guys at the 100m sprint? Why is it men from impoverished countries like Jamaica and Kenya breaking all these records?
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Constantly running from lynch mobs is a larger environmental influence than you're allowing for.
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Anyone who's been near a high school track meet quickly understands a lot more about reality than Birney:pic.twitter.com/LxA8r7aYF9
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why group east and west africans into "sub-saharan africans" though, when (a) the mechanisms for success in sprinting and distance running are very different and (b) east african distance runners belong to a totally different ethnolinguistic population than west african sprinters
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I just think of it like it's a horse race. Why would I want to be one of the horses?
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