Race and intelligence

You are opening a hornet's nest with that question.

The ability of a particular individual (within or across the ethnic groups) differs along with the person's ages, health conditions, human relations, or the degree of tiredness. It varies from time to time for an individual. or varies from person to person at given circumstances.
Every individual (across the ethnic groups) are special.

that was my intention.

same goes for physical ability but we openly accept that some races are generally better than others in that area.

As for physical ability, there can be seen biased probability distribution of becoming a performer: E.g.,
White swimmers are often found rather than those contained in other ethnic groups.
Black runners are very prominent in the short tracks.

Mental ability is not a simple thing. It often depends on human relations where the individual is placed as well.

Plenty of Asians at my uni, and they're smart. Don't know whether thats a genetic trait of race, a work hard attitude of culture, or simply the fact that they constitute about 53% of the worlds population, so probability says there's likely to be more smart ones than any other race.

Wilso, Asians are smart at what, exactly?

They're doing maths, science, business, you name it.

Race has nothing to do with anything biological. It's all in your head.

Ahh yes, back to this stuff. Now how about these as criteria. Race as a factor in social mellowness. Race as a factor in respect for the children and the old. Race as a factor in sense of humor.

Problem with all of this shite is that there is no way to make the correlation, ever. There are good/bad blacks whites yellows and rastafarians. There are bad good and good bads. It isn't about race. In the end, enlightenment is about the individual. By my bootstraps no one rises but myself, and then only if I pull hard enough. And then it only matters to me.

How taut (taught) are your bootstraps?

Interactive link about race:

http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm

Wilso, If as you say Asians make up 53 percent of the world's population, some are bound to 'stick out' of the human crowd - no more, no less.

The 53% value I saw on discovery channel. I don't have any reason to dispute it.

the very application of the term "race" (caucasian/negroid/mogoloid) is a short term and long outmoded descriptor of a non-reality based bias. We only have the human race.

A lot of foreign students who go to US colleges are better students than average. In most countries outside the US, you have to pass placement tests just to get into high school, let along college, let alone college in the US.

Thanx dyslexia.

dys, Too few in this world recognize that fact: we all belong to the human race. All the other classifications only creates problems.

there was this Italian anthropologist (JLN can most likely recall the name) who came up with a new means of catagorizing peoples. he named them Endomorphs/Mesomorphs/Ectomorphs, which made as must rational sense as the terms so often used today for race. which is to say NONE.

When will theystop blaming?