Free2beme Perhaps this article in our newspaper from Saturday will give some new life to this topic. I don't neccessarily agree for I'm not a scientist but I thought it would show what one expert may give as an explanation. This is repeoted in the Advertiser Sat20th Oct.
"BRITAIN - Nobel prize winning American scientist and DNA research pioneer James Watson, 79 ,left ,has set off an international furore with comments to a British newspaper about intelligence levels among blacks.
The renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he served as chancellor ,suspended his administrative responsibilities on Thurday following the outcry, the laboratory said in a news release.
Dr Watson has apologised and says he is "mortified" by the reported comments.
Sunday Times Magazine quotes him as saying he "is inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really" "
italics and highlighting mine ,so how about that ?
My wife who works for a government department says that the Australian aborigine people they deal with are much worse at paying their phone bills than other population groups ,and yet they recieve much better government benefits than other people simply because they are indigenous.
But this could be because of social minority position rather than intelligence ,but whose gonna believe the above when it's not socially trendy these days not to point to supposed failings of ethnic groups.?