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u/Deleetdk · 4 pointsr/eugenics

You are apparently arguing against the hereditarian model (i..e mixed genetics and non-genetic causes). Since The Bell Curve did not actually advocate this, it's a strawman. You are attacking the views of Jensen, Rushton and Lynn (and others), not Murray and Herrnstein's book.

As for the arguments:

  1. Lead levels not shown to be causal at these levels. Could easily be a non-causal correlates (cf. sociologist's fallacy). Lots of research shows that such promising 'environmental' causes are non-causal correlates. Look up the recent work by e.g. Amir Sariaslan.
  2. Small unreplicated study from 1959 should not seriously convince you of much. The Eyferth study has other problems, such as the main result mainly being an effect of oddly low German IQs, no data about parental IQs, some blacks not being blacks etc. Read up on the study and discussion of results. Newer studies do not find this pattern, mixed race groups are in between. See e.g. review of gaps in our study (Fuerst and Kirkegaard 2016).
  3. Flynn effect is a cohort effect, fails measurement invariance, not g-loaded and irrelevant to non-cohort gaps.
  4. They have also increased in the past. Could be many things, e.g. different sampling procedures over time, different tests, cooking the books (by testing companies who collected the standardization samples). Could be environmental too, but since no one is advocating a 100% genetics model, this doesn't imply much of interest. No one has done a big meta-analysis of this literature for 15 years (since Roth 2001), so not easy to know what's up.
  5. Yes it does. We recently confirmed this using a sample of ~1400 American kids, but it can also be seen in the relationships between skin color and IQ. And also confirmed for socioeconomic status measured by a large meta-analysis (Kirkegaard et al 2016).

    If you want to understand this topic, you will have to rely less on bad sources (especially dodgy videos on Youtube) and read the primary literature. But to understand that, you need to first understand statistics, behavioral genetics, differential psychology and some population genetics. It will take you a while to acquire this knowledge. Jensen's original review from 1969 is still a quite good introduction to the topic. For hereditarian views, read Jensen 1969, 1973, 1998, 2005, 2010 (last two with Rushton), and Lynn 2015.

    For environmentalist views, see Nisbett 2005, 2009, 2012, Sternberg 2005.
u/TogReiseren · 1 pointr/eugenics

Eugenics: A Reassessment (Human Evolution, Behavior & Intelligence) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0275958221/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_N2VUDbXFN5TB3

u/MoHammadMoProblems · 3 pointsr/eugenics

It's a person's right to not be deprived food, water or relative freedom.

It's a woman's right to be childfree and unencumbered by objectification (being used as an incubator/replicator).

It's a man's right not to be used as a sperm donor.

It's a child's right not to be born in to a life of suffering.

So giving free vasectomies respects human rights more than the constant famine and drought people suffer because of "humanitarian aid".

Minority rights, oppression reduction, poverty alleviation, harm reduction, feminism, and human empowerment are some justifications.

u/Persian_Lion · 1 pointr/eugenics

I recommend the book The Ancient History of the Near East.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Ancient-Near-East-3000/dp/1405149116

Many cultures have been wiped out or assimilated over the millennia.

As an example of modern assimilation, my family. My father moved here, to the US, following the Iran-Iraq War. He was Muslim (Shia), Persian-speaking, and traditional. Now? He's Christian, English-speaking (entirely, because Persian is rare), and liberal compared to his old, right-winged self. I was raised with English as my primary language, with American culture before Iranian culture, etc.

We are assimilated. My blood may be Iranian, but we are Americans.