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Originally Posted by Botnst
What is a "race"? Are Indians from southern India the same "race" as Laplanders? Are Melanesians the same "race" as Manchurians? Are Tanzanians the same "race" as Guineans? It's all a load o' crap. people have been interbreeding across racial lines so much that there is NO GENETIC distinctions between races. Instead, we classify primarily by pigmentation. It's silly.
But I think tests of human cognition are important just as epidemiological studies of heritable diseases are important.
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Any study would be flawed since race is not really definable. And I can think of no way to exclude factors beside race from any experiments, unless you snatched babies when they were born and treated them all the same.