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> That flies in the face of the evidence. Please provide some evidence besides your opinion. > The Koreans weren't genetically engineering themselves to be t

by nomel 6d ago

> That flies in the face of the evidence. Please provide some evidence besides your opinion. > The Koreans weren't genetically engineering themselves to be taller and smarter than their parents and their cousins in DPRK. The Spaniards didn't genetically engineer themselves either. I don't really understand these genetic engineering points, especially since you use phrasing that includes intent. But, maybe you're saying that height is more related to nutrition than genetics. Yes, but there's a genetic component there as well. A person, feed the same food, will end up at a different height entirely due to genetics. I can't understand your Spaniards point, but they have a genetic population a bit different than others elsewhere in the world for the same reason as all of them: dicks are only 6 inches long, so geographic isolation results in genetic populations with some level of similarity. Show me the data.

lern_too_spel 6d ago
> Please provide some evidence besides your opinion. I have given you plenty of evidence. See the Koreans, the Spaniards, and the children I described earlier. > I don't really understand these genetic engineering points The point is that Korean IQs went up by much more than the gap between Mexicans and Americans, and they didn't have to modify their genetics to do it. Instead, this change was purely environmental. > I can't understand your Spaniards point The point is that the gap between Spanish and Scandinavian intelligence was larger than the gap between Mexican and American, and just like for Mexicans, ignorant people complained about Spanish immigration because their faulty reasoning led to attributing the gap to genetics. Now that gap has disappeared. They didn't genetically engineer themselves. This was purely environmental. > Show me the data What do you call 8 IQ points per decade if not data?
tptacek 5d ago
The only evidence you've provided is a vanilla MZ/DZ study from 2008.
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by nomel 6d ago

lern_too_spel 6d ago

> Please provide some evidence besides your opinion. I have given you plenty of evidence. See the Koreans, the Spaniards, and the children I described earlier. > I don't really understand these genetic engineering points The point is that Korean IQs went up by much more than the gap between Mexicans and Americans, and they didn't have to modify their genetics to do it. Instead, this change was purely environmental. > I can't understand your Spaniards point The point is that the gap between Spanish and Scandinavian intelligence was larger than the gap between Mexican and American, and just like for Mexicans, ignorant people complained about Spanish immigration because their faulty reasoning led to attributing the gap to genetics. Now that gap has disappeared. They didn't genetically engineer themselves. This was purely environmental. > Show me the data What do you call 8 IQ points per decade if not data?

tptacek 5d ago

The only evidence you've provided is a vanilla MZ/DZ study from 2008.

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