Uriah

Yes, David Reich, a Harvard population geneticist, said this. Which makes it all the more salient that, as I wrote, "he explicitly repudiates Dr. Watson’s presumption that such differences would “correspond to longstanding popular stereotypes.’’ That’s why I chose HIM to quote! https://t.co/xN4tFNmvN5 

You have to expect that significant genetic influences pushing in a given direction _usually_ result in the opposite effect. Why would that happen? Reich is lying, of course, and you prefer that.

Do you think that there are literally no possible environmental shifts with large interactions with between-group genetic variation for intelligence? I’m not sure there’s any other quantitative trait in any species where we could make that kind of statement

To the extent that we've looked hard at within-group variation, the usual environmental factors that people assumed made a difference - the way in which you're raised, say - don't have much of an effect.

And if you're cruel enough to look at the actual world we live in, you might notice that the Chinese diaspora has landed in many places, under circumstances that in many cases weren't very favorable. Like illiterate tin miners, in Malaysia.

In which of those spots in their diaspora are the Chinese academically sub-par? None of them.

When did Chinese EA first become above average in the US?

Not too long, since the ancestors of existing Chinese-Americans arrived pretty late, after WWII.