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Wasserschweinchen's avatar

I feel like the question on the geneticness of the US black/white IQ gap should allow answers >100% (blacks getting a boost from the white extended phenotype).

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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

tfw forgetting about your own idea

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Ferien's avatar

partly agree and partly disagree.

well, 100% too implies that blacks get boost from living standards of 1st world country, electricity, antibiotics.

I think >100% would mean that they are somehow subsidized beyond that. I.e. suppose they never given effective nootropics.

<0% also should be accepted, though unlikely few readers will choose that.

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jonesyone's avatar

Emil, quick off-topic question. This is the easiest way for me to reach you. Maybe you’ll feel generous at the time of reading this and respond. Years ago, you wrote a post (might not have been on this blog) about a study looking at rule-adoption/conformism of social behavior between countries. Do you recall what I’m talking about?

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Ferien's avatar

I'd suggest you to write about MAOA gene and how much B-W american gap in criminaty reduces if USA blacks somehow instantly get same MAOA allele frequencies as USA whites

p.s. Thanks, always pleasant to read you

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Ferien's avatar

If you want readers to take long tests, please specify beforehand.

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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

You don't have to report those values, you can just skip. The survey says that in the beginning.

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