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I wonder if you would be willing to bet against a person that held such beliefs. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you bet on the IQ of randomly selected Americans by looking at their picture. Presumably, you would guess close to the mean for each picture since you think a concept like race is too fuzzy to make use of and your opponent would adjust his guess according to the perceived race of the person in the picture. Do you believe you would win such a contest?
The way that you slipped easily between intelligence and IQ is exactly the dangerous fuzziness that I was referring to.
I won't vote you down, but if you reread my comment you will see that I never used the word "intelligence" at all. I was trying to see how strongly you believe that race is too fuzzy a concept to include in predictive theories (nothing about intelligence per se).
This is true, but it appears the problem was that you responded to a discussion about intelligence by talking about IQ.
No I didn't. The comment I responded to said this:
This is about IQ and Race, which is exactly what my reply was about.