Epigenetics and environmental factors obviously create huge differences.
As you well understand, the race-based IQ differences were and are a very unwelcome result. Lots of effort was spent to overturn or debunk these findings. Obvious things like environmental factors and the like were looked at very carefully.
The results still stand.
Obviously, capability is not equal across all domains.
Well, obviously. And yet consider the consequences to Larry Summers of some rather obvious remarks which, arguably, include being kicked out of the running for the Fed chair.
Obvious things like environmental factors and the like were looked at very carefully.
Environmental factors can be very hard to control for. Maternal factors in the womb, DNA Methylation, etc, etc.
There's stuff for which the 'race-realists" explanations are very shaky. The considerable academic success of African immigrants to the US (even when compared to immigrant groups from other areas) is an example for which the explanations provided (high barriers to entry only let smart people in) is plausible, but it leaves plenty of room for uncertainty. ...
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)