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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: longnshort who wrote (231810)5/6/2005 8:39:43 PM
From: tejek   of 1575761
 
And don't forget about the book 'the bell curve'

PC nonsense may have had something to do with it but the main reason why the Bell Curve was trashed is because of the following:

"IQ gaps in other nations

Attempted compilations of average IQ by race generally place East Asians at the top, followed by Whites, other Asians, Arabs and Blacks. See IQ and the Wealth of Nations for an attempted compilation of average IQ for different nations and a discussion of associated problems.

The IQ scores vary greatly between different nations for the same group. Blacks in Africa score much lower than Blacks in the US. The black-white gap is much smaller in the UK than in the US [3] (http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001047.html). Another example is Jews who score much lower in developing nations and Koreans who score much lower in Japan.

There are many examples of IQ score differences between close neighbours in the same nation, for example between French vs. Flemish speakers in Belgium, Slovaks vs. Gypsies in Slovakia, Irish & Scottish vs. English in Great Britain, and white speakers of Afrikaans vs. white speakers of English in South Africa. The difference between the white neighbours Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland is as large as the differences between whites and blacks in the US [4] (http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/L-inferiorIQ.htm)."

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