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No, of course you didn't but, ahem, one of our posters here did, just as I quoted in #51 above.

They why did you include me by name in your comment like that?

Even then, it was only in service of a higher point, namely, that groups with lower average IQs still include some who are very bright indeed.

No one is disputing that. That is why I posted a graph of the IQ Bell Curve - which points that out exactly.

I'm only saying it's a function of thousands of years of social structures which either reward or punish brain over brawn. In short: when jocks rule, you get more jocks and when nerds rule, you'll get more nerds.

People with higher intelligence are "nerds?" What is the scientific definition of a "nerd"? You throw out sweeping statements such as that, but you demand everyone else police themselves. Yours is a very strange post.

SkyPilot: "They why did you include me by name in your comment like that?"

Because in my post #51 I quoted from your own post #8, hoping to make a point about average IQs amongst various human sub-groups, i.e., Jews & Hispanics.

SkyPilot: "People with higher intelligence are 'nerds?'
What is the scientific definition of a 'nerd'? "

Why-ever do you wish to debate the definition of "nerd"?
I simply used it as an informal term for "smart people", as opposed to more physically endowed "jocks".
What's to debate?

So I'll repeat one point I'm trying to make, in hopes you will accept it without taking further offense:

For thousands of years, amongst some cultures being a "smart guy" is/was frowned on and penalized.
As a result "smart guys" did not reproduce and pass along their genes as readily as those more culturally acceptable.
Such groups have lower IQs, on average.
In other cultures over those same millenniums, being mentally agile was the only way to survive, and dullards could not reproduce or pass along their genes.
Those groups have higher IQs, on average.

So what, exactly, is your problem with this?