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"Malcolm Gladwell on "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well Gladwell is not the sort of person who be stepping into a science career with these ridiculous statements.

Whites have a much higher degree of genetic variation, thats why we have more geniuses than any race of people on the planet and thats why we are also the least homogenous in appearance of any race of people. And im quite sure almost every person in sweden is smarter than africas smartest person.

5/25/07, 7:38 AM

Blogger Steven said...

"And im quite sure almost every person in sweden is smarter than africas smartest person."

That may be a bridge too far. There are about 680 million Africans. You're also dealing with Semites in north africa, who are a little smarter, and some whites. There are 4 million whites in South Africa, and maybe as many whites as in Sweden continent-wide. Africa's smartest person may be as smart as Sweden's smartest person.

5/29/07, 12:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Whites have a much higher degree of genetic variation,

As usual on this site, you're just flat wrong. The highest degree of genetic variation is found among Africans.

5/29/07, 3:21 PM

Anonymous Winston said...

"And im quite sure almost every person in sweden is smarter than africas smartest person."

Wow! Us Africans must not be making a very good impression for someone to make such a sweeping statement. Kenneth Kidd's research must be unsettling for many, but there is still no need to bury one's head in the sand.

Given access and adequate rigor, I wouldn't bet against Africans being highly represented in any endeavour - physical or mental. To take one solitary example, in the 1970's, an inner city, impoverished, all black junior high school(the Vaux school) chess team were national champs 7 years in a row, and 8 out of 9 years. Similar excellence was achieved in Harlem when a team there became national champs a year after a rigorous program's inception, repeating year after year.

The accomplishments were all the more impressive when one considers their economic position relative to more financially endowed and priviledged, mostly White school districts. If we read Kenneth Kidd's research dispassionately, the excellence in chess of poor African Americans or the academic excellence of West Africans in England should come as no surprise. Really, Africans should be among the most and least gifted in most areas.

12/11/07, 4:57 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"There simply is no question that average sprinting ability is higher among black kids than white kids."

Please provide independent evidence/data to support this point.

11/6/13, 6:20 PM

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