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Re: Jayman says Italians are stupid

Posted by JayMan on Thu Sep 19 16:05:13 2013, in response to Re: Jayman says Italians are stupid, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Sep 19 00:01:17 2013.

John Horgan believes that research on race and IQ should be banned, and that having university IRBs veto such research would be a reasonable way of doing so. There are problems with this idea.
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I can see two possible ways of addressing the problem. One is to end all science. Horgan might like that: he thinks that there isn’t much more to find out anyhow.
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Of course, once you had the complete story, there are only a few billion obvious ways in which the information could leak out.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond argues that all human groups have equal mental capabilities – except for the inhabitants of New Guinea, who are clearly smarter than the human norm...If this is the case, there’s money to be made. Good performance in a lot of high-paying jobs requires intelligence above some fairly high threshold. Such people are scarce [outside of New Guinea], and that means that their labor is expensive...This wouldn’t last, of course – these guys would not stay peons forever. They’d be generating their own start-ups in a few years, founding hedge funds, dominating the Vegas poker tournaments, etc.