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May 12, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Race Differences in Intelligence
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, and I would like to talk to you about racial differences in intelligence.
I realize this is an unpleasant subject.
Even if different races have different average IQs, why talk about it?
The truth is, whites have to talk about it, if only in self-defense.
In America, and in every other majority white country, if non-whites, But what if,
on average, people of different races don't have the same IQ?
Differences in intelligence are a big part of why some people do better in life than others.
Could it be that blacks do poorly in school, for example?
Not because schools are racist, but because, on average, they are not as smart as whites?
If that's true, it may not make much sense to try to narrow the racial gap in achievement.
Instead, maybe we should be trying simply to improve the performance of all children and not worry about the gap.
So what's the evidence for racial differences in intelligence?
Actually, that's the wrong question.
The right question is, why would anyone think blacks and whites, for example, have the same average level of intelligence?
There are certainly smart blacks and stupid whites, but why would anyone think that the people who live in the Congo are just as smart as the people who live in Sweden?
Before black Africans had contact with outsiders, not one African society had invented the wheel.
No blacks had a written language or a calendar.
No blacks had built a two-story building or a mechanical device or had domesticated any beast of burden.
All this suggests a low average level of intelligence.
Black Africa has now been in contact with the outside world for hundreds of years, but it is still where you find the countries with the most poverty, The shortest life expectancy and the lowest levels of economic development.
Many people will tell you Africa is poor because it was colonized and exploited by Europeans.
Not so.
The most extensively colonized parts, such as South Africa, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria, are now the most advanced parts of Africa: Ethiopia and Liberia.
which were never colonized are among the poorest places in Africa.
And do you know which country in the Western Hemisphere was the first to become independent after the United States freed itself from Britain?
It was Haiti.
Haiti, which has an almost entirely African population, has been independent for nearly 200 years, but it has a profile of poverty, disease, Corruption and underdevelopment that makes it a perfect match for black Africa.
Its history is very different from that of African countries, and it is 4,000 miles away across an ocean, but African people have brought a typically African society to the new world.
Wherever blacks live outside of Africa but among people of other races, They show the same patterns of generally less successful behavior.
This is true of Canada and Britain, for example, which never had a history of slavery or Jim Crow.
Does this mean that white people brutally mistreat black people all over the world, wherever they go?
Or do black and white people simply have different levels of ability?
Here in the United States, there are about 16,000 different school districts.
There isn't a single one in which black students perform at the same level as whites.
Is every one of those 16,000 districts run by racists trying to keep black people down?
Or are there simply racial differences in intelligence?
Blacks and whites separated from their last common ancestor at least 60,000 years ago.
Since that time, the two groups have evolved the dramatically different appearances that we see between today's Europeans and Africans.
The brain is an organ, just like other organs.
What are the chances that during the time it took for the rest of the body to become so different that the brain remained utterly unchanged?
And Henry Harpending explain in their book, The 10,000-Year Explosion,"The biological equality of human races is about as likely as a fistful of silver dollars all landing on edge when dropped." In other words,
it's impossible.
Therefore, just on the basis of what we see around us and what we know of history, There is no reason to think that people of different races, on average, have the same intelligence.
But what does science say about this?
Ever since large-scale IQ testing began at the time of the First World War, whites have gotten higher scores than blacks.
The 15-point difference in averages, around 100 for whites, around 85 for American blacks, has not changed for nearly 100 years.
There have been hundreds of studies, and studies of studies, and they all give the same results.
Critics of IQ testing claim that a.
it doesn't test intelligence and b.
that testing is biased against blacks.
Such critics are completely outside the mainstream of academic consensus on this subject.
IQ test scores Reliably predict the ability to do well at things that take brains, success in school, making money, learning complicated skills, etc.
Nor is there any bias against blacks.
There are now IQ tests that are completely independent of culture.
Raven's Progressive Matrices is one of the most reliable tests of intelligence available today and doesn't even use language.
People are scored on how well they find patterns.
You can even use gestures to explain how this test works and give it to people who don't speak a word of English.
In the example on the screen, you choose which of the eight patterns at the bottom best complete the third row pattern in the box above.
Stop the video if you like, and you'll figure it out.
There's another simple test of intelligence that could hardly be biased.
If I ask you to repeat back to me the numbers 8473562, you can probably do it easily.
If I keep adding to the number of digits, though, at some point you won't be able to remember them all.
This is a memory test, and blacks and whites do equally well.
But if I recite the digits 8473562, And ask you to repeat them back to me in reverse order?
That's a lot harder.
That's an intelligence test, and whites do significantly better on it than blacks.
How can a test like that be biased?
What's more, the people who complain about bias never explain why Northeast Asians do better than whites on IQ tests, including the reverse digits test.
And Raven's progressive matrices.
Would they argue that the tests are biased in favor of Asians?
Or would they accept the obvious explanation that Asians are on average more intelligent than whites?
It is their higher average IQ that explains why Asians get better grades than whites in school, get into better colleges, and have a higher per capita income than whites.
It may seem harsh to say so.
But people of different races get different scores on IQ tests because they do not have the same average intelligence.
Anyone who studies the evidence with an open mind will see this.
Some people argue that the reason for this is that blacks live in disadvantaged circumstances that depress their IQ.
Environment does have some effect on IQ, especially on children, but that effect is pretty much gone by the time people have grown up.
The real test would be to see what would happen to the IQs of blacks if they were raised by whites in a white environment.
As it happens, in the 1970s, two scientists, Sandra Scar and Richard Weinberg, decided to study that very question.
They found black children who had been adopted as babies by upper-middle-class whites, and they tested their IQs at various ages.
When the children were small, They had IQs as high as those of white children.
But by the time they were 17 or 18, their IQs had dropped to just two or three points above the average black score.
Maybe having spent all that time in white families did raise their IQs a bit, but it certainly did not eliminate the 15-point black-white difference.
There is something else that suggests environment does not count for that much.
In 2009, black students from families that had annual incomes of more than $160,000 a year got lower average SAT scores than whites from families with incomes of less than $20,000
a year.
That is a pretty stunning refutation of the idea that a deprived environment is what explains low black IQ and poor academic performance.
There are strictly biological data that are hard to argue with, too.
In 2005, Science Magazine published a report by Bruce Lahn of the University of Chicago and a number of colleagues in which he announced the discovery of gene variants associated with brain growth.
Professor Lahn suggested that these variants, which appeared relatively recently in humans, Could have played a direct role in the development of human civilization.
The University of Chicago even used Professor Lahn's research to apply for a patent for a DNA-based intelligence test.
It turned out, however, that these gene variants are common in Europeans but rare in Africans.
Pressure began to build on Professor Lahn and he stopped his research.
It's getting too controversial, he said.
And he explained he was beginning to think that some knowledge just isn't worth having.
The university dropped its patent application for an IQ test based on DNA.
One scientist who never backed down was Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario.
He pointed out that there is a well-known correlation between brain size and intelligence.
In general, the bigger your brain, the smarter you are.
And indeed, as Professor Rushton showed, using MRI and CAT scan studies, Asians and Europeans have considerably larger brains than Africans or Australian Aborigines.
As you can see from this graph, Chinese, for example, have 200 more milliliters or cc's of brains than Kenyans.
That's nearly a cup!
That's a lot of brain tissue, and brain size has a solid correlation of nearly.5 with intelligence.
There is simply no room for doubt that there are racial differences in average intelligence, and the evidence is very strong that there is a biological basis for these differences.
The table you are looking at now is from a paper by Linda Gottfridson of the University of Delaware.
It gives you an idea of the social consequences of race differences in intelligence.
The two bell curves represent the distributions of intelligence for blacks on the left and whites on the right.
The entire table is worth studying in detail, but look at the IQ ratios indicated at the bottom.
On the left, blacks are four times more likely than whites to have IQs of less than 75. And Hispanics are three times more likely.
At the same time, Whites are twice as likely as Asians to have IQs that low.
To the right, we see that Whites are 30 times more likely than Blacks to have an IQ over 125 and five times more likely than Hispanics.
Listed above the ratios are examples of professions that generally require an IQ of 125 or higher: Chemist?
Executive? On a per capita basis, we would expect to see 30 times as many whites as blacks with enough intelligence for careers of that kind.
It is simply unrealistic to demand that there be proportionately as many blacks as whites in those professions and in others that require high intelligence.
Equal outcomes in life are just not possible When different groups have different abilities.
Science is making progress all the time, and pretty soon we will find the genes for intelligence.
You can bet the farm that it will be found that those genes are not distributed equally in all racial groups, and the eventual acceptance of the truth will be a very good thing.
Our society is constantly telling blacks and Hispanics that they are just as smart as white people and that the only reason they fail in school and don't make as much money is because of white racism and oppression.
This, of course, is the best possible way to teach blacks and Hispanics to hate white people.
Wouldn't you hate a group of people if you were always told that that group is keeping you down?
We will have a better, more just society if we build it on truth rather than ignorance.
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