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You posted: Even if Watson is correct, and no one can even define intelligence so I don’t know how he can be, knowing someone’s ethnicity tells you very little about the individual.
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You have made the important point here. There are certainly enough highly intelligent blacks and stupid whites that intelligence is a matter that has to be assessed on an individual and not a racial basis.

That said, I don’t know what the science may prove, but it seems to me that in the absence of evidence on either side, we should wait for the science to determine the answer.

Finally, why should science be concerned with social perceptions? If it turns out to be true that, as a race, blacks are less intelligent, as proven by valid scientific methods, should that science be censored?

[Tut]

That said, I don’t know what the science may prove, but it seems to me that in the absence of evidence on either side, we should wait for the science to determine the answer.

It seems to me, a scientist comes up with a theory and then goes about proving that theory to be true and if he or she can get a grant to do that, all the better.

Though grants have also been a motivating factor.