Hello all,

Im a black african man and found this string quite interesting.

The B/W IQ gap - Environmental or Genetical?

My question is lets take this to the next level of abstraction and ask What's the motive to have this proven?

I imagine the motives of the IQ tests are for state planning and development. Thats for the state to use, but on this board the result of these tests are for individuals to prove their inherent superiority, discountenance their perceived inferiority or disseminate their own beliefs that all humans are equal. Its a personal thing.

Personally, I believe the world is a complex interaction of entities. Too complex for any entity to comprehend, because of our limited capabilities and constraints. Thus we have come up with structures to define scopes and objectives to give our existence meaning. Entities come in various forms of distinction and aggregation, each having their own interpretations of various basic concepts. My motive for arguing on this board is to prove to myself that I am not inferior inspite of historical and contemporary events that say I am. However these events did not happen in my sphere of existence. In my sphere of existence, I have always believed that I was as great as any other human being could be, and I have found no event or person that i have related with in my sphere of existence that can dispute this. I also have interacted with various black africans and have found nothing suggesting that I am special in this category so for me that is the proof I need to satisfy my personal motive.

Your proof to satisfy whatever your motives are should also be based on your personal sphere of existence. Try not to use state IQ results which were designed for use by the state to achieve state motives to satsify your personal motives. Everything you learn, the IQ results, historical and contemporary events are a means to an end but the end and the means are created by an entity trying to give its existence meaning, there are many entities and thus many existences and thus many meanings for each existence. Each having its own validity based on the entity which formed the existence in the first place. This is why these boards go on and on because the truth is everyone is trying to satisfy his personal motive using data which was designed for a different entity (aggregate entity: state, polity, cultural group, ...) as evidence to win an argument over a different individual personal entity who obviously has a different existence, different meaning and different motive.

When what you should be doing is borrowing the information or data from the aggregate entity to formulate your own existence data and realising that you will never be right or wrong, because the world is too complex for us to comprehend, you will only be more enlightened as you get the right and true data to satisfy your personal motives