jihadist's Journal: IQ tests not biased, 3rd world lags in IQ and wealth

This post is a very long and detailed examination of what James Watson said, what the data reveal about James Watson's claims (i.e. are they, or are they not factually accurate), and what the media and scientists told the public about what the data reveal about James Watson's claims.

Contrary to the above claims, differences in intelligence between income groups are not larger than intelligence differences between racial groups in the US, nor do differences in income or wealth account for the racial differences. Whites from households in the lowest income bracket have higher IQ scores than blacks from households in the highest income bracket

Watson would only be retracting his intelligence claims if he considered those claims tantamount to claims of 'superiority' or 'inferiority', which he clearly emphasizes he doesn't. Watson is saying that questioning that all races are equal in intelligence is not racism, it is trying to figure out why the world looks the way it does, with the greatest engineers and the greatest musicians disproportionately coming, in a systematic way, from different racial backgrounds. In other words culturally separated people of African descent have been musical innovators across a diverse range of cultures (in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean), while culturally separated people of East Asian descent have excelled at math and science across a diverse range of cultures (in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean).

This is not a claim of racial 'superiority' or 'inferiority', either in terms of legal worth or even in terms of overall talent - since groups all have different strengths and weaknesses. It is simply the recognition that people of different genetic heritage, on average, reveal different talents wherever they are found in the world, and there is one explanation that best accounts for these observations: evolution.

In other words, Watson was thinking like a scientist. Which is exactly why he was punished.

James Watson tells the incovenient truth at Gene Expression blog

Yet another way our society is brainwashed into believing socially acceptable dogma over any shred of reality.

It's focused too much on race for my tastes, but that was the context of Watson's flap to which it is a reply, and I again would like to mention white third world nations in Eurasia like Russia and other Eastern European states which have average IQs just a few points above Mexico.

Why can't we accept that some people are smarter than others, and while we can't measure it with money, there's a rough correlation between being smarter and being more able to provide?

The unscientific bias of this society, and Slashdot (posts modded "Troll" for mentioning scientifically accurate information), worries me.