BIOB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fallacy, The Bell Curve, Heritability

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Lecture 18/19- heritability and racial differences and bell curve fallacy. The bell curve: intellegence and class structure in american life. There is a genetic basic to the iq of different races in the us. Then there is no point in throwing out money because no variation in environment will change their iq racist! Average difference in iq from different races account for genetic differences. Iq is heritable but that is not the same as saying that it is heritable. Bad science comment towards rushton book. There is a difference between iq of african americans and. In the book they conclude that environmental difference is not big enough to cause this change so it must be due to heritability race. Iq is affected by environment and white and black people have different populations and different environments. Fact: difference between iq of black and white people. Now if genetic variation is removed, then the graphs would look like this.

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