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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2939 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025

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Re: hbd, are there tests where black score higher than whites? I'd think visual acuity and color discrimination (color blobs, no pun intended; is there literature regarding it?). I mean those tests than not centered about some highly specific black culture and also those that also would be similarly remote from preindustrial societies as IQ tests.

Don't think there's any real test measurement but anecdotally West Africans seem unsually good at language acquisition. Obviously a cultural component as well, but the widespread beliefs about the difficulty of adult language acquisition don't seem to apply to the Nigerian touts at shady Japanese nightclubs who are capable of pestering potential customers in Chinese/Japanese/Korean as well as every major western language.

Sailer has written about this.

They react to surprise dangers better. White people are likely to look and freeze up while black people start running.

In general the pattern seems to be that they are better at spur of the moment improvisation while whites need to build and execute a plan.

You can argue it's cultural since there hasn't been enough proper study to prove a biological aspect.

It sorta makes senses. In Africa, the biggest danger was ambush predators. In Europe (especially Northern Europe) the biggest danger was starving in the harsh winter.

His req was "remote from preindustrial societies", which this isn't.

Blacks also afaik hit motoric child developmental milestones significantly faster, which are almost 100% biological, but again that's very relevant for preindustrial societies.

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