jerryskids

Congrats and welcome to the club! Your complimentary supply of Viagra and Depends is in the mail. Don't use them all at once.

Well, it's hard to tell from your Wiki link, because it reads like somebody's term paper to justify that position. It is anything but objective. As I implied above, if you asked me if there is anything inherent to skin color which directly drives average intelligence, I would say no. If however a significantly higher percentage of people with a particular skin color evolved through many generations to reward physical vs. intellectual achievements, there may be a correlation (not causation). The Wiki link also defines "race" as a sociopolitical phenomenon and not a biological one, and questions the definition of "intelligence," so it's premise is to muddy the discussion such that no consensus can truly be achieved. Which, as near as I can tell, is what this article concludes, although you like to toss around superlatives like "most" quite easily in creating your perception of consensus. In the end, to believe that any human brain from any ethnicity, geographical region, etc. is statistically likely to be 100% physiologically identical (i.e., immune to localized evolutionary factors) seems unrealistic. But, as has been discussed when this topic has arisen before, there is no clear social benefit to pursuing it. It just rankles me to be considered "racist" by soft-thinking wokists because they can't grasp this concept.

Just wondering because I missed it, but what were the facts again? The only facts I see are test scores. Also for the record, I see no reason for skin color to implicitly be related to intelligence.

Looking at the winter meeting thread, it seems we have 10 events, 9 players, so 10x9x50=$4,500 available. I have no memory of how the payout went last year so I'm just brainfarting here: Scenario 1, pay out the same for all tourneys Each event: $400 total, 200/125/75 for 1/2/3, $4000 overall Cup: $500 total, 250/150/100 for 1/2/3, $500 overall Scenario 2, pay out more for majors Majors (4): $500 total, 250/150/100, $2000 overall Other events (6): $320 total, 160/96/64, $1920 overall Cup: $580 total, 290/174/116, $580 overall Just kicking off the discussion.

Works for me, I'll do it once edjr gives the OK

I don't know why I let myself get dragged into this topic, since I find most people lack the intellectual objectivity to discuss it, but I find it fascinating for some reason, so here goes. Actually Tim, it is the same. If you believe that the brain is a physical organ capable of evolving, then different brains would evolve at different rates based on different needs. The would be the same as any other physical organ or capability; think of replacing "fast-twitch muscles" or "melanin" in the above statement. At this point I'm merely discussing the possibility, not asserting any conclusions. So the question for you and others Tim is: do you believe that the brains of different groups of people, over time, would evolve to meet different needs, yes or no? This is a general, bell curve sort of question, not asking if you think every person in one group is smarter than every person in another group. That would be dumb.

@BiffTannenbullied him into quitting.