bogus comments on Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bogus 26 January 2016 05:13:59PM *  -1 points [-]

("biological hypothesis" is the one which says biology strongly affects IQ):

Note that some forms of the "biological hypothesis" are especially hard to refute. Few people disagree that eating too much lead paint as a child will give you a low IQ. If black kids eat a lot more lead paint than white kids, the end result will be that blacks will on average be rather bad at science, and scholarship in general.

Comment author: Lumifer 26 January 2016 05:21:46PM 1 point [-]

The biological hypothesis pretty much means genetics. There are a lot of environmental influences (from eating lead paint chips to being deficient in iodine to being dropped on one's head as a child) that are well-known to affect IQ.