@WildHoodLawyer @PALE_Primate @Steve_Sailer So obviously there's two issues. The first is the assumed causation in all of this. I assume you know that basic problem.

The second is the "extended genotype". This argument could also be made, to a far more extreme extent, across species.
@WildHoodLawyer @PALE_Primate @Steve_Sailer What kind of environments do chimpanzee children grow up in? Pretty poor. What happens when they're adopted by humans? They become more socialized.

The problem with human subspecies is that they're so much closer it feels intuitively plausible that this doesn't apply.
@WildHoodLawyer @PALE_Primate @Steve_Sailer Compare East Asians in their own countries vs. East Asians in the US. Compare Africans in their own countries vs. Africans in the US.

If you want to call that "environment", that's neat, but if the "environment" stems from the genotype, it's not fungible.
@WildHoodLawyer @PALE_Primate @Steve_Sailer This becomes even clearer when comparing Eastern Europeans to blacks in the US. Eastern Europeans don't have the same "problems" as US blacks despite being poorer and having less opportunities in any measurable way. Though the whole idea that black behavior is some "problem"...
@WildHoodLawyer @PALE_Primate @Steve_Sailer ...in need of remedy is just, like, your opinion mahn. Is chimpanzee behavior a "problem"? No, it's just how they are. The same is true for the gradients of homo sap.

What prevents people from seeing this is proximity and overlap.

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@ImmuneHack @wil_da_beast630 On UK data, keep in mind the A-levels are NOT a single standardized test. The tests a person takes are determined by the level of classes they take in school. And thus you will see a compression effect when comparing between groups.
@ImmuneHack @wil_da_beast630 That said, the things you're proposing here are the ONLY serious environmental factors explaining part of the race-IQ gap. And they're the only factors that can seriously narrow the "g" gap. Send someone to school a long time, or make them take IQ practice tests if you want...
@ImmuneHack @wil_da_beast630 ... to just pump up the IQ numbers. But you're actually dealing with some underlying physiological factors that are the kinds of things that can impact "g". So I applaud you in being a bit more serious than most academics on this.
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@wil_da_beast630 First off, N=1.

Second off, you may have been trying to prove a point by scoring deliberately low the first time. And since we know that "left wing" people are more willing to lie, and you're clearly motivated on this, that's not something that should just be hand-waved away.
@wil_da_beast630 Third off, applying this to the charter-public school gap, if there even is one, is a leap. Lottery voucher studies (really natural experiments) have shown rather decisively that there is no significant effect from "good schools".
@wil_da_beast630 Now this will be resisted by flashing studies and authors' conclusions, which is an example of what should be called "regime flavor". For example, Sandra Scharr described the MTAS as vindicating an environmental hypothesis. So inb4 doing that.
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@ZihoParkEcon @EPoe187 No? Blacks were gifted a parallel society instead of being sent back to africa. All of the "lack of opportunity" claims are blacks being barred access to whites.

Segregated schools for example. Is that an advantage or disadvantage for whites?
@ZihoParkEcon @EPoe187 Blacks had their own institutional nexus. Their own businesses, schools, neighborhoods. There was nothing written in stone that it was destined to be worse.

Of course it was because of genetic differences. The whole disparity between Europe and Africa attests to that.
@ZihoParkEcon @EPoe187 But when you say "blacks in 'the US' had less opportunities than whites in 'the US'", well that's a product of being from a different sub-country. They were in the "black US". Sure, Romanians probably had less opportunities too. Are we on the hook for that?
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@Duke_Libertas Once you get into wars of mass mobilization, the concept of the "decisive battle" becomes less important, unless you define "battle" more broadly. For example, the "battle of France", if that's classed as a "battle", was extremely decisive.
@Duke_Libertas Basically, when the entire army is 50,000 men, and it's in one location, and communication is what we would consider extremely poor, all sorts of wild things can happen in an afternoon. Naval warfare retained the capacity to stackwipe 5 years of production in a day far longer.
@Duke_Libertas When armies get bigger, a decisive outcome in one "tactical-level" battle is almost impossible by WW1. The closest you can get is something like Sedan, where a tactical level battle later led to a broader strategic encirclement even if the losses at Sedan itself were unimportant.
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@Duke_Libertas Japanese losses for example were a function of trained airmen. The carrier losses were bad, but a carrier is useless if it's airmen can't stand up against their opponents. I.e. - the air battles in the Solomons probably did more damage to total combat power than Midway.
@Duke_Libertas Now on a per day basis? Yes, Midway was probably the biggest blow. The "Marianas Turkey shoot" not so much because they were shooting down poorly trained airmen who the Japanese could replace.
@Duke_Libertas The Stalingrad pocket was certainly a bodyblow, but the overall campaign saw more Soviet than German losses. Stalingrad was a symptom, not a cause, and in the overall analysis was not a turning point. It's not like the Germans had 250k from their OOB just poofed away.
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@Mattie258 @PramilaJayapal Well over 90% of US forces were conscripted. On a population ratio, the Nazis got more Ukrainian volunteers than Americans got from their own population.

I'm sure they liked america, but the great bulk of soldiers went to war because the state told them to.
@Mattie258 @PramilaJayapal As for the red tails, they were guys who wanted to be fighter pilots. Whether they had some great love for america is impossible to know. They were probably more fond of it than the average black person at the time.
@Mattie258 @PramilaJayapal There's all sorts of psychological things going on that makes it almost mandatory to say "I fought because I loved my country".
1. It makes you seem better
2. The atrocities uncovered after the war
3. The whole war propaganda and fervor over the course of the war
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