... of systematic over-performance (relative to IQ) in areas of cultural innovation. This is quite probably something people are missing. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
... After all, it's not anything that many of the contenders in the "debate" are very interested in looking for. (Sailer and Sowell are among the rare exceptions.)
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Should I know about this? What are some examples?
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more generally blacks have a huge number of phonological mergers, most english words sound the same to them so they spend far more time than white developing slang for disambiguation
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @0xa59a2d and
This is a really interesting point. This sort of sound processing capability may vary innately by group. (also, related to the above, blacks seem to have much more musical ability than you'd expect based on IQ)
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Whether it does relate to processing or something else, the mergers are there. It's like how most Americans merge "marry" and "merry" - they just do it for dozens of different sound-clusters
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @HbdNrx and
Tonal languages at the other extreme?
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tone is a "coloring" of vowels that preserves qualities of consonant clusters that used to be next to them
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