Are blacks less intelligent than other races?

I never thought so. But this article says so.

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece

On second thought, if you look at the violence going on in Darfur and all, may be the researcher has a point.

 

It is their surroundings not their capabilities.

 

Well who said people must be alike? Some races are more intelligent some races are more athletic, some races are more hardy, more stable etc.
So I don't care what they say about black people, about asians, about westerns etc. The only thing I care is who are the people I'm living/dealing with.

 

The link doesn't work

 

That's pretty insane to think. One person might be more intelligent then another person, but their capacity to learn is the same. I don't believe that, raised together, going through the same experiences, a black person would be any less intelligent then any other person with different color skin.

 

One race always thinks less of another race because of the colors of their skin, it hard to believe that there are still people out there who hate blacks just because of who they are

 

The link is working fine for me.

 

I can't take this guy seriously...

 

I think it depends from person to person, not race to race

 

Stupid people can take many forms and I don't think color has anything to do with it. It's too hard to generalize intelligence on an entire race of people.

 

Did anyone actually read the article?

Then how can you say it depends on the individual?

 

I don't believe any race is less intelligent then another, some just don't get the chance to show what they really can do which is a shame!

 

No, SuviCyriacNadakuzhackalzudayckaluvfjuvaladazukhalriviaczuday, they are just blacker than other races...

 

My experience /research says yes. Asians would have higher IQs than Europeans and Europeans higher than Africans.

You also can take into acount artistic genius which we see quite a bit in the US with AA entertainers. The right brain may compensate for lack of left brain ability and vice versa.

Trying to be nice and assuming otherwise actually harms people with lower IQs. If we assume everyone has equal capacity for the same ability.

If you toss me (with an IQ 120's) in with a group of people who all have much higher IQs (140's) and expect me to compete in certain arenas it would be unfair to assume I have an equal chance.

The author has a point to a degree.

 

Yes, For example "Me"

 

First of all there is only one race, the human race. Ethnicity has nothing to do with intelligence, anything that says otherwise is just pseudoscience aka BS. There is so significant scientific proof to even measure something like this and if it was measured how would you control other variables like the enviornment. Even if you do find a correlation betweenethnicity and intelligence you can not infer causality (this is statistical law), simply because there might be other contributing factors. Asians dont have higher IQs because they are asians...there are LOTS of other reasons. So dont sell yourself short.

 

Especially the ones living in the ghettos.

 

I can't believe people still ask this question. How pathetic some people's views are on others.

 

Answer to your question. Absolutely not ! I'm a white American. From an Irish background. I'm proud of my heritigage but in no shape or form are the whites to imply that whites are smarter then blacks. I think that's outrageous to say the least. One of my professors back in the good old school days over 20 years ago was black. In fact he was a genius and a multi millionaire. He taught because it was his passion not because he needed to in regards to earning a living. Now with that said. I've never made the multi millions like he has. Does that make him smarter then me ? Or am I just an idiot? Not at all. It's life! But for someone to state that blacks lack intelligence and that whites are smarter. Well.. I'd like to meet them face to face.

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