Why is it taboo to consider race and intellect correlate in the general population?

Go watch the Olympics.
Take a look at the NFL.
Take a look at basketball etc....


Ok that term was a bit general. White people are better at swimming. Nordic people are the best powerlifters.

There have been studies showing black people have a greater proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibres (run faster) and a lower centre of gravity. Not that anyone with a shred of common sense would need it confirmed. (this coming from an Asian)

Put a Kenyan in London and on a Diet of Tesco and McDonalds then see how fast he runs. Race does not = intelligence its to do with socio economic status of your parents and opportunities available

Yes because British long distance runners are all on a diet of McDonalds.

You may be right but your fear of keeping an open mind is akin to stopping scientific research in case it proves religion wrong.

There's a theory behind this. I can't remember the details precisely, but basically the Indian and Chinese who we allow to immigrate here will be more successful kinds of people, and therefore more likely to be intelligent.

They are then more likely to have intelligent children as compared to other ethnicities who've lived in the country for more than a few generations, and so have relatively more normal distributions of intelligence.

And so we get these statistics.

If anything Science proves there is a god

what ? my point was Kenyan run fast not because they black but because of the Kenyan lifestyle

Except its proven that life chances depend on parents income and not race.

As for Religion, something science says is true today is called false tomorrow.If anything Science proves there is a god

You say this is if you are in possession of some sort of knowledge that we are not.

I would say it is because there is no definitive research into the matter. Much of it relies on either IQ or school grades. IQ is a highly questionable way of measuring overall intelligence as well and can also be manipulated by environmental factors. This and school grades are also reliant on the school education. Now the first world is comprised mainly of white majority countries because of their dominance on the world throughout the last 500 or so years. The poorer parts of the developed world are also more likely to be comprised of people of an ethnic background. Now I would say that the exposure to poverty and therefore a lower quality of education has more of a say on the average intelligence of each member of a race then another, but of course you may reject all this and prefer go for the immediate view in order to maybe fit some sort of racial views that you may or may not have.

Awaiting the shower of negs from those who want to ignore contrary evidence and criticisms and say that "research shows" without giving an example of a study that does not rely on school grades nor IQ for the reasons above that I have given.

I don't think this explains it. We don't make people sit IQ tests to enter.

There are natural barriers though. Like they need to be intelligent to learn our language

Obviously, there is a difference in intelligence between different populations, as the potential for intelligence is mostly hereditary. Liken it to height, where for instance, you have two people where one has a potential height of 1.8m and the other have a potential of 2m, the guy with a potential of 2m will likely be taller than the guy with the potential for 1.8m, but only if they both have similar levels of nourishment.

Equating differences in intelligence to race is rather meaningless though, seeing as the gene pool for Sub-Saharan Africans is a lot bigger than the gene pool of Eurasians, which went through a bottle-neck when we migrated from Africa. Comparing Eurasians to all blacks is subsequently about as meaningsful as comparing a single African ethnicity to all the other African ethnicities. Comparing Indo-Europeans to Asians is probably as meaningsful as comparing the eastern half of an African etnicity to the western.

However, since the topic was to discuss differences between races in terms of intelligence, I will present my personal belief/guesswork. I believe that the greater gene pool of the black "race" means that intelligence probably have a greater variance. Meaning that the African race have more at the very low end of the spectre and more at the very high, i.e. less centered around the average, even though that average will probably be very similar to the Eurasian, assuming that the groups that formed the Eurasians were of a fairly average intelligence. This assumption makes sense to me, the unintelligent wouldn't be able to cope with emigration and the intelligent probably would be able to have a decent life in the place where they already lived.

Please do point it out if I have made any flaws in my reasoning here, and please don't interpet my speculation as racist. If anything, it is the opposite, as it clearly shows one thing that tends to be forgotten about averages; it's an average, and averages don't really tell much unless you know variance and standard deviation.

the oriental races are the most intelligent on average and the africans the least intelligent. why convolute the issue?

No they are not. Why does everyone think this? Western Europe and North America trumps East Asia in almost every area of academia, and since intelligence is almost certainly nurtured from birth, one can assume this means Western Europeans and North Americans are the most intelligent.

Yes because British long distance runners are all on a diet of McDonalds.

You may be right but your fear of keeping an open mind is akin to stopping scientific research in case it proves religion wrong.