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Originally Posted by Senusret I
That's crazy.
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Seriously - what a bizarre thing for him to say:
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Originally Posted by James Watson
He said there was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true".
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IF (and this is a
big "if") intelligence has a genetic component, it would be perfectly reasonable for a certain population to self-select for intelligence - I don't think any reasonable individual would disagree. That would mean a discernible difference in mean intelligence (or, likely, aptitude) among a certain population. It's not even unreasonable that this effect would be more likely to happen in a first-world, technology-rich environment than a third-world environment. But that's at a population level, not a race level, and really requires a LOT of advances in measuring intelligence, etc. that we just don't have.
Going to the extent Watson did goes WAY beyond any sort of reasonable genetic analysis though. It's just nuts. Black employees? Unreal.