Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "IQ Expert: Race Not the Cause of IQ Gap" video.

  1. but there are genetic differences between races so surely you making a contradiction?
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  2. You seem to be suggesting that I was reducing race to skin colour, which I was not, but there ARE broad racial groups: Polynesian, Caucasian, Asian , Mongoloid, Slavic, etc. These groups have broadly similar external physical features, so it's not unreasonable to assume that there could also be broadly similar brain features. Yes, environment makes a significant difference, but even Erik Turkheimer acknowledges a 10 point IQ difference between black and white Americans, so a 5 or 10 percent genetic component to IQ is MORE than enough to explain this difference, which is well within the reported racial difference.
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  3. My primary surprise here is that anyone would think that you can simply deliver an IQ test designed for an educated western audience to an unsophisticated 3rd world demographic and expect meaningful results. It was my understanding the Murray's meta analysis was normalised.
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  4. Thank you. Yes, I realised that I was taking liberties with my definition of race there, but as there is no other meaningful definition which is agreed upon, it was probably the most meaningful.
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  5. Really? So why are some of the planet's smartest people so emotionally damaged?
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