Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Didn't he say that evidence would be found within a decade. That people with pink skin are genetically more intelligent than Blacks?
Dr. Watson may have said that, but he does not speak for the scientific community. Also, he says that we will understand the genes, and their racial distribution, that are behind intelligence within the next 10 years, not that we will find a difference in IQ scores. He also does not (as far as I have read) say anything as specific as "blacks is dumb and whites is not", but in fact insinuates that there is no reason to assume that the geographically isolated races wouldn't evolve different cognitive abilities. Much like how you admit that the geographical isolation of black people, mixed with different behavioural needs of the culture and region, caused them to have athletically superior bodies and genes (on average).
I personally do not support Dr. Watson. Most individuals within the scientific community do not support Dr. Watson. He has some interesting points, which I tried to point out above, but the vast majority of what he said is related to the fact that he is a 80 year old white man, and is NOT scientific. Many scientists can have non-scientific views of reality, for instance, political affiliation. Or the quantum physcists that keep trying to use their findings to explain the brain.
The evidence that exists today is that, if you give a group of black people and a group of white people an IQ test, and you tell them that it is an IQ test, the whites will perform some 10 points higher than the blacks once the scores are averaged (any individual black person can and does score higher than any individual white person). Of course one can nit pick the test, but I assume that neither of us have ever actually seen a real IQ test, let alone are familiar enough with them to go over their cultural context. I'll grant you that IQ as it is understood by psychology and scientists is not what you are refering to as 'intelligence', but it is something that does reflect specific cognitive processes which are hereditary and also are able to be modeled onto neurological processes.
lol, if I were you, I'd stop worrying about what some old genetiscists are saying, and start worrying about why black people succumb to the weapons bias the same as white people. (The weapons bias meaning that, when shown pictures of black men, one assumes that objects shown immediatly after are weapons, or one assumes that objects black men are holding are weapons).