re: Culture of peace shoots a 5 year old in front of his family

Why the dad didn't kill him immediately is beyond me. He would've never made it to his booking photo.

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But you can convince my brother or neighbor who might support Trump if some of the most vocal Trump supporters frequenting these forums weren't openly racist pricks and making the liberals look like they are correct

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So your brother and neighbor are retarded.

No wonder you are angry , you should distance yourself from those tards.

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Does anyone else suspect that the father and the shooter were "business associates?"

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Why would someone think that?

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A combination of experience, literacy and a functioning cerebrum?

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It is also "head in sand" to deny that SOME of that leftward shift MIGHT be due to issues other than innate intelligence, such as environment and education.

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I agree it could be due in part influenced by those things, but that’s no excuse. And let’s be honest, people are looking for an excuse. And after the excuses come the blame of other for those problems, instead of looking inward for the solution.

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It is also "head in sand" to deny that SOME of that leftward shift MIGHT be due to issues other than innate intelligence, such as environment and education.

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SOME

Alas, the results are rather consistent worldwide.

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Not really. To make that sort of assertion, one must examine a place where Blacks do NOT face environmental and educational hurdles greater than other races. The first place I considered was Britain, but I was not able to find any hard data. Then "Bermuda" popped into my head, as a largely-Black population with a British education system and a stronger economy than found in the Caribbean. This article examines that question, including conflicting studies which show (a) essentially zero cognitive discrepancies and (b) existing discrepancies significantly smaller than those found in the US.

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According to the 2000 census, Bermuda is 54.8% black and 34.1% white. IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002) did not include intelligence data for Bermuda, but IQ and Global Inequality (2006) reported an IQ of 90, as the average of two studies. In this post I discuss some overlooked data which suggest that Bermudian blacks have an IQ that is very close to 100, and that there is no IQ gap between black and white Bermudians. There is also some overlooked test data which suggest otherwise, and we are left with some uncertainty over the meaning of the conflicting research.

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But let's look at Europe as a case study on IQ variance within a population that is (comparatively) homogeneous (mostly "White").



Are we to accept that Montenegrins and Albanians are inherently/genetically a FULL STANDARD DEVIATION dumber than their Italian cousins (who live less than 100 miles away), with whom they have been interbreeding for thousands of years.

Or is there some other explanation? Perhaps the fact that the Montenegrins and Albanians alive today grew up in a dirt-poor country, with crap government and crap education?

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We need to get past this complete inability to think of any difference in population outcomes as being anything other than caused by bias.

You CANNOT even begin to address a problem if there's complete refusal to even contemplate certain causes

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Agree 100%.

To be clear, sub-Saharan Africans and Europeans have largely evolved separately for somewhere between 50k and 100k years, and it is not at all unreasonable to think that different traits might have evolved in the two vastly different environments. Hell, the two environments produced two VASTLY different physical phenotypes, so it is not inherently implausible to surmise that intelligence may also have evolved differently as well.

"Not inherently implausible" does not mean that evolution DID work that way, but I agree with you that it IS bad science to dismiss the possibility for purely political or social reasons. Personally, I doubt that the period of separation has been long enough for a trait like intelligence to have diverged significantly trhough evolution, but that will be a tough one to prove ... either way.

As an aside, how long do you think it will be before one of the resident brain trust asserts that I have just opined that Blacks are genetically inferior to Whites? I give it less than an hour.

If Obama had a son.

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Those little girls will be scarred for life.

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and afraid of black people

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Are we to accept that Montenegrins and Albanians are inherently/genetically a FULL STANDARD DEVIATION dumber than their Italian cousins (who live less than 100 miles away), with whom they have been interbreeding for thousands of years.

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It's called brain drain and, it's a very real phenomenon. One seen in spades in Afghanistan.

Basically, if a place is particularly shitty, everyone ABLE to leave, does. In Afghanistan, it's nigh on impossible to find qualified to people to run anything because everyone who has skills would prefer to go somewhere where having your children blown up isn't a daily potentiality. Which, of course, I completely understand. I'd leave too. As you can imagine, this will obviously affect population average IQ.

This self selection bias also exists in the Bahamas if you think about it. Just the other direction. People of some means will obviously gravitate TO their which will tend to level off discrepancies given the relatively small population.

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interesting supposition re Albania and Montenegro. Any data?

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As you said, it's a supposition.

And, it's based on real world experience not to mention a healthy dose of common sense.

Hell, we experience it right here in the U.S. all the time.

If you live in a shitty crime ridden neighborhood, and, thru your smarts, you achieve the ability to leave, you do. Or at least many do. Let's not act like I'm talking quantum physics here. I'm articulating a reality you full well know.

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Not sure how the Bahamas fits the discussion, as I have not researched demographics there. My guess is that it is more-Caribbean than Bermuda (which is why I looked at Bermuda).

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Ha

I read "Bermuda" and my brain said Bahamas!