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> [Intelligence] varies among races, knowledge of this is scientifically sound, it is the consensus of everyone who studies it seriously.

Holy fuck. Yeah. I'm calling you out for being a racist fuck. Your "human biodiversity" aka "scientific racism" is a pseudoscience that has no basis at all. All your ideas better explained by economics.

So in conclusion, fuck you.

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Please don't, no matter how right you are and how wrong someone else is. I understand the frustration, but it only makes things worse to take discussion to the level of "fuck you", and it flagrantly violates the HN guidelines.

What's more likely, there are people posing as scientists trying legitimize 'racism,' or scientists presenting accurate data are called 'racists' because people don't like their data?

It's likely that an arbitrary metric can vary among groups. This as such is not problematic. The problem with the quoted 'research' is that they are effectively just p-mining data sets and trying to find correlations between IQ and other metrics.

Well, it's well-known that Ashkenazi Jews have above-average intelligence. So it definitely can vary. Why wouldn't it vary by race as well?

Would you make the same comment if someonone claimed that physical ability differs among races? E.g. kenyan runners, sherpas, etc. If no, what makes you absolutely sure that intelectual abilities have zero relation to the race?

Well, it's well-known that Ashkenazi Jews have above-average intelligence. So it definitely can vary.

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I love this response.

[META] Not due to the content of the response, but the fact that dang, who is rightfully vigilant about enforcing standards of civility all over HN (with detachment, warnings, and bans), willfully ignores blatant violations of said standards where ideology aligns.

What did dang say when you emailed him a link to the comment?

The assumption that if you've seen something then we have too is wildly off base.

The problem is that it's hard to argue with racist trolls. Pretty much anything you do plays into their need for attention and an audience.

Still, i upvoted you, and hopefully you won't get banned.

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