Beth Morling: Research Methods in Psychology

Also, if the racial bias is environmental, wouldn't we expect different results across countries and continents?

In my limited reading, success is defined study-by-study. Typically, dying from murder, going to prison, dying before the age of fifty are all factors that would decrease your success score. Each study seems to use slightly different definitions. And spelling white as yt seems racist. Overlapping bell curves are something worth investigating.

@@nateofthesouthOk care to respond to the other points I've enlisted in my comment? I don't want to respond with the proper yt spelling because KZfaq sometime hides my comment

@@rodneythuman9082 That makes sense with the "YT" thing. I'll reply to your points, because I find them interesting. Please keep in mind that I'm not an expert. I'm just a guy who finds your ideas interesting. My responses will be _italicized._ Some Logical holes within the idea of a strong consistent correlation between eye que, genetics ,income and success . Lel this should be fun😆!!! Native Americans and South East Asians are much more genetically closer to East Asians and yet they exhibit more average disparities in eye que scres with E. Asians than E.Asians do with Yts. Yts and East Asians have more genetic deviations than this two mentioned populations _It seems like you're arguing against the idea that IQ is completely determined by genetics. I don't think anyone is making that argument. IQ is partially genetic. Nutrition, education, culture and more all influence IQ as well._ Qtar ,Saudi Arabia are one of highest income countries in the world per the average person yet Qatar has an average of 78 which is among the lower average clusters in the world. Same applies to Saudi. How does this make any sense?? Eye que and income have to consistently correlate right??? _No one, that I'm aware of, states that IQ and income have to consistently correlate. I am aware that many people state that IQ and income tend to correlate, but that's just one of many factors. I'm sure if you were to drill into one of these countries, for instance Saudi Arabia, you would find that Saudis of above average IQ tend to have above average income. I'll wildly guess that knowing IQ would increase your predictive accuracy from 50% (a coin flip) to 60-70%. Much better than a coin flip but far from certainty._ Egypt has an average of 80 yet it was among the earliest advanced civilizations to arise and springing up such a civilization would require above average que. If eye que had any influence and always dictated results then they should be a superpower in the mordern world. So what happened? You want to tell me that their collective eye que decreased?? Que is highly genetic and people don't just decrease in innate abikities in such a drastic magnitude ...this shouldn't be possible if the bearing of eye que is majorly genetic . _Population level IQ can go down. There's something called "brain drain," in which the brightest minds leave an area to pursue better schools and jobs elsewhere. That's one possibility. It's also possible that some of Egypt's early accomplishments were aided by foreigners. It's also possible that cultural changes could have repressed IQ. You can see this happening right now in the USA._ Europe was estimated to have an average of 70 at the start of the 20th century while at this time they were basically revolutionizing advancements left right and centre and were shaping how the Mordern world was going to be. So why all this fluff from genetic priests about how societies with a collective average of low 80s and 70s wouldn't manage to develop or prosper. _This is the first I've heard about a 70 IQ in 1900s Europe, so I don't have much to say about it. I can speculate that it only takes a few high IQ people, in leadership positions, to do incredible things with steam power. I don't care how smart you are, if you're limited to using slave and animal labor, there's a limit on what you can accomplish._ Lastly define "success". Is it the western definition of being fullfilled in income and wealth or acheiving materialistic things or having some strong recognition in society. Success is a broad term and just doesn't narrow down to this things.

Yeah, I think I'm quoting you on that for next year's Gen Psych class!