PSY371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality, Dysgenics, Flynn Effect
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Asian > white > black- smaller difference between asian and white then white and black. Science is not racist- doesn"t speak to social policy its hard to remove political opinion for difference to answer y don"t bother with science just to opinion. Predominantly white higher in countires in countries predominantly not. A major difficulty with research on group differences and iq (especially race) is political opinion. Another (related?) problem is a lack of high quality research: e. g. Lynn & vanhanen (2002) data from equatorial guinea was actually from. Pure races are unlikely; but differing gene frequencies are observed between groups. Even sorting groups based on inherited traits does not imply genetically separate groups eg classify people based on hair colour even if we pick on particular trait and put in group doesn"t classify people. Any real group difference could be caused exclusively by environmental factors- within a country it is difficult to imagine that different environment.
