"people should watch the video too. not just read. i assume most of the people accusing watson of being a pussy regularly tell black americans that they think the B-W IQ difference has a genetic component to their faces seeing as none of you are anonymous pussies? (for the record, i've been honest in this way and people often react with appreciate with candor)" 
 
So he's a pussy, but not a lonely pussy. Right?

"I don't think it's going to change things much. White runners will still try to beat black runners. And they'll largely lose." 
 
But not if we educate them, eh James? 
 
What a simpering, mewling weakling he is in this interview. Terrified and cowed.

I'm always amazed by how impressed some people are by these within/between population figures. It is so often true of traits that I can't imagine how anyone could be. There is greater variation in height within each sex than between each sex. Obviously the average difference in height between men and women has no genetic basis.

Hey, is Malloy on vacation? Haven't seen him post in a while.

Sharia has no hope of remaining confined to the voluntary arbitration of civil disputes. Islamic culture is a medium for repression and backwardness. There can be no compromise with it. Rather than attempting to accommodate them, they should be attempting to expel them and increase native birth rates. Quite frankly, it's going to come to that one way or the other but I'm afraid things will have to become much more stark before multiculturalism is finally stabbed in the heart.

"But when you see Obama pulling crowds twenty and thirty times the size of those McCain does, you realize that those polls aren't capturing everything." 
 
Weren't these same super-enthusiastic, left-leaning, young, idealist egalitarian types supposed to deliver John Kerry? Most people who work for a living don't have the time to show their "passion" at political rallies but their votes count on election day.

Also, has anyone ever tested a possible link between breast size and a particular effect on breastfed male infants?

To what extent did the Scottish paper investigate the "dose effect" IE the longer a child is breastfed the higher their IQ. Does higher maternal IQ also correlate well with the amount of time spent breastfeeding?

"Even though I'm an atheist, I'm tempted to exclaim "God help us!" 
 
What was Jensen's famous phrase? Paroxysms of denial?

"My wife is Mexican-American, and when we were dating, she was concerned about my meeting her family, who all lived in the Rio Grande Valley. I told her that I was from rural Kentucky... 
 
So my guess is that we won't, in the end, find any racial differences in IQ -- but we will find that certain social conditions result in cultures that affect IQ positively or negatively..." 
 
Just me or has the entire egalitarian ideal become incapable of expressing itself without platitudinous anecdote and faith-based "guesses."

I thank him for broaching the subject, even if ineloquently. I think lots of preconceptions about what we know about IQ will be shattered in the wake of this story.

"People balk at being called stupid, and understandably so." 
 
Then there is only one thing to do: pretend that there are no stupid people. I hear people balk at being told that evolution is also a reality so no choice but to deny that as well I'm afraid.

I see all of the typically shallow responses are included in the article. The notion that a scientific assertion would be deemed "offensive" tells you where we are here. Of course, Mr. Vaz buried the lead by mentioning that objection last.