The Ghost of Paley
Posts: 1703 Joined: Oct. 2005
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I see that Shemp n Hughie have put their time to ill use....now it's time to clean Arfin's clock:
From The Book:
p.20, Prologue: Yali's Question:
"My perspective on this controversy [IQ differences] comes from 33 years of working with New Guineans in their own intact societies. From the very beginning of my work with New Guineans, they impressed me as being on the average more intelligent, more alert, more expressive, and more interested in things and people around them than the average European or American is." [He then talks about their superiority in forming a "mental map of unfamiliar surroundings", while blaming their failures elsewhere on a lack of schooling].
He spends the next paragraphs discussing why New Guineans are smarter than Europeans:
1) Europeans lived in densely populated cities that bred epidemic diseases that didn't discriminate between the intelligent and everyone else;
2) New Guinean tribesmen, on the other hand, had to worry about tribal warfare, crime, and accidents, which selected for a higher IQ.
3) He then brings up Westerner's reliance on passive entertainment such as television, which "contributes a non-genetic component to the superior average mental function displayed by New Guineans". He continues in the very next sentence: "That is, in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners, and they surely are superior in escaping the devastating developmental disadvantages under which most children in industrialized societies now grow up."
Now I know that "Europe" and "America" do not equal "white people", but given that he's talking about the dysgenic impact of epidemic diseases throughout these regions's histories, he can't be referring to the relatively recent nonwhite immigrants, and since he spends a lot of time defending Middle and South Americans, he's probably not referring to Amerindians either (especially since Northern Amerindians didn't live in crowded cities). That leaves You-Know-Who.
Still feelin' smug, Arfin?
-------------- Dey can't 'andle my riddim.
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