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Old 10-23-2007
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Re: Explosive! Fury at DNA pioneer's theory: Africans are less intelligent than Weste

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Originally Posted by goober View Post
Watson is an example of compartmentalized intelligence, he's very clever at some things and a moron at others.
He does have a racist streak that shows through here, and he's trying to justify it, but while different populations may have different average intelligence, that tells you nothing about an individual, because no one is average.
I don't think he's suggesting anything else than that.

As I said in OP, I don't like his findings, but then, science was never invented to make us feel good, was it?
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