And where do those stats place Irish Catholics?
Unless they're right up top, I'd be tempted to ignore your opinion.
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Unless they're right up top, I'd be tempted to ignore your opinion.
Just look at the high school graduating classes in the GTA and one will see that the top performers are East Indians (Chinese and Jews). No, there aren't a billion E.I.'s in the GTA. Also, has anybody been to the UofT campus recently? Notice the demographic makeup of the student body and that is despite the discriminatory quota system. Let's argue facts and not political correctness.
And as said earlier, most of the reason is not genetic, but cultural, social, phycological. Holy Cow! Talk about you being slow.
No, no, you can't say this. It is an inconvenient truth.
BTW: I started a thread about how fast Black people can run and everybody patted me on the back. Why, because it is politically correct. Now, how about cock size?
They study. We don't. At least not in the same percentages.
Home environment counts.
I don't mean to be a dick here, and I hate political correctness as much as the next guy, but at least try.
I do love what his case and others like his say about academic freedom. Academic freedom, just watch what you say. We need the absolute freedom to pursure knoweldge in new and unaccepted ways, unless I disapprove it in which case burn them at the stake.
Its a joke and it also goes to show the limited effect of higher education in both critical thinking and the making of better citizens. Along with the various other idiocies one sees on campus, among the students and professors, especially in the liberal arts. Silly me, I was raised to think that tearing apart a city was an act of violence and that gooning your way into changing policy when 2/3rds of the population disagree with you was the opposite of democracy. I guess I didn't gain the benefit of a Quebec liberal arts education. There were nutters where I went, including one who wanted to give the Inco mining site to "the workers" even before they broke ground on it, but even with a history degree I in class managed to avoid most of the derpatude. Did have one prof who showed up to class drunk every single time.
When one doesn't have a 14" cock, one has to study and work hard to get through this life, unlike guys with 14" cocks who have the world handed to them on a platter.
The best brains from India and China come here to study, so we have the best out of 2 billion people competing in our schools with our population of 30 million.
How do you know that most of the reason is nurture rather than nature?
If I recall correctly, Rushton's position was that most of the reason is nature, something like 60%.
I don't know whether it's possible to calculate how much is accounted for by nature or nurutre.
My theory is that populations are more similar than different (obviously), but there are slight general differences if you take the average in each population. The idea that we're all exactly the same on the inside even though we evolved to look differently on the outside flies in the face of evolutionary theory. Supposing populations continue to intermix, there will eventually be no ethnically distinct groups and this will become a non-issue. However, it will take thousands of years for that day to arrive.
Take each person on their individual merits and enjoy life.
The two obvious natural physical characteristics that goes with 'smarts', and many book on anthropology or physiology will back it up, is size of the brain and the number and complexity of neural pathways. They can go hand in hand as the bigger brain will generally have more pathways, but you can also increase the numbers and complexities of these pathways by exercising your brain, read studying, and practice. A person with brain damage can grow new pathways and learning/relearning functions and memories. Brain tissue dies just like tissue in the rest of the body and if you don't exercise it, replacement of these pathways will differ or not happen at all.
It's not a direct correlation, as in a person with a larger brain will be smarter, but the potential is there. In human evolution, the human race evolved and subsequent species had larger brains, from ~300 cc in Australopithecus to todays ~1500 cc in homo sapiens giving rise to increased potential for an in skills. Cro-Magnon's brain was 10/15% larger than modern man, but not as convoluted. I believe it was noticed after Einstein death that his brain was ~15% bigger than the normal human. The more complex brains will also have more creases. Another physical attributes is the different development of the different areas of the brain, giving rise to different strengths and weaknesses in certain skills such as languages, spacial acuity, problem, solving and such. The brain is generally symmetrical, but not perfectly so. Then growth of new pathways explained why young children learn so much so quickly especially when compared to later stages of life.
There are also correlation between species that involves brain chemicals and DNA adding to the complexity, but that's beyond my abilities to easily explain.
Add to that the better diet, emotional support, social pressures to succeed,increased access to learning materials and facilities and you increase that end result.
Reference and support? What are you talking about? My reasons for my reply to winstar went over your head and Canada-man's too. Unsurprising.
