 All right Isn't it rational to observe different racial groups on average are more prone to having certain traits attributes like intelligent athleticism? in very narrow contexts like Athleticism, you know if I'm looking for a long-distance runner Then I'm not gonna go to blacks because I know lots of blacks who are not very good long-distance runners But I'm gonna go to Kenya or to you was Kenya Uganda I think it's came in Uganda and for whatever reason and a bunch of reasons both Biological and in terms of training and in terms of altitude that makes runners from Kenya and Uganda really really good But if you if you want a runner Who then you don't go to other parts? I don't know to Ghana. Oh, you know, I don't even know right South Africa So no It's not that helpful What you need is that if you're really looking for somebody with particular traits like gonna be a good basketball player Then you analyze those traits and you look throughout the world where those traits are and you go to the place Where those traits are but you don't just examine the entire group because the entire group has much more variation in That group they have a lot of variation. Therefore. It's unuseful Why would you ever want to? Focus on a group's intelligence, whatever the hell that means on the average groups intelligence. It's meaningless It is useless Even if you had a good measure of intelligence, which I don't think we have and I've talked about IQ. I don't think it's a good measure of intelligence and a lot of people don't think it's a good measure of intelligence And go read what Naseem Taleb has to say about IQ tests But even if you look even if you had a good measure, why would group averages matter to you? They wouldn't because what you're looking for is Assuming you're looking for intelligence people you're looking for the exceptional You're looking for somebody really really smart and there could be any racial group because again the variation among groups However, you define the groups It's far smaller than the variation among individuals So the real question is how do I identify? individuals are really really smart and Race has nothing to do with that zero to do that I mean because if you use the racial racial averages, then you would never catch the Walter Williams or the Thomas souls And if used averages, I know a lot of really really really dumb Ashkenazi Jews But on average, they're the smartest people on the planet supposedly, but I know a lot of them who are really really dumb and I know non-Sphardic Jews that are much smarter than Ashkenazi Jews Now, I'm sorry non Ashkenazi Jews phodic Jews who are much smarter than Ashkenazi Jews, but on average the less smart So who cares what relevance does that have? Are you gonna decide who to date based on the average and you decided who to marry based on average You can decide who to hire based on average. You can decide who to employ Are you gonna decide who to I don't know hang out with based on averages? That's racism That is racism Stefan Marlin you argues that the level of civilization is related to population IQ Jared Diamond Guns gyms and steel seems to have the rebuttal to that idea. What do you think? I mean, I think I think Stefan Marlin you is wrong. I think Stefan Marlin you is is a Racist and an anti-Semite. I mean if if that were true and since Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQ They would have the highest level of civilization and that's not being true and never been true Maybe in the Old Testament times, but not since then and I haven't read German Jared Diamonds rebuttal, but I'm sure he's a better source than Stephen Stefan Marlin you who I don't consider a source for anything And I really encourage you not only to stop listening to him But to unsubscribe to his channel and to take away any any Sanction you might be giving him because he is a bad bad person and you should not be affiliating with such a person But there's just no basis for that Civilization is a consequence of ideas and I don't think Jared Diamond knows to see this a Jared Diamond is wrong in Guns gyms and steel. They're all wrong. All these historians are wrong because the fundamental driver of human history is ideas and How ideas spread through cultures and where they come in and how they come in? That's a fascinating topic But that is not related to IQ that is related to a bunch of characteristics that certain cultures have So for example, if you look the Middle East today if you look at Arab populations You would say and I know that people who rebut this as well But you would say well they can never have a civilization because they're Arabs and they have a low IQ supposedly but yet from 900 around 900 to around 1500 at least in Spain the Moors who are black by the way Had the Higher civilization of the time, you know, the Chinese the Eastern Asians who have according to the IQ tests again Have very high IQs have had civilization But also been very good at destroying civilization and the West has way outstripped them Including in countries that on average have lower IQs than China it's just bullshit China's problems have to do with the fact that they never had an Aristotle. They never had a real Reality-based metaphysics and epistemology. They never had the idea and therefore never embraced reason and Therefore their ability to go from civilization to keep advancing was limited was capped not IQ It was the lack of a great philosopher And that's a historical accident to a large extent And and maybe their cause is why Greece why good things happen in Greece, but they don't have to do with IQ They have to do with I mean There are a number of different theories about this and I'm not an expert in either one of them They have to do with the particular nature of Greek society at the time and and people people maybe who invaded Greek but again Do we know what the IQ of the Greeks were? I Mean this obsession with IQ is just I mean, let me be very clear And this pisses me off the obsession like that Q is nothing more than a disguise for racism In the guise of science, but this is what the Nazis did the Nazis studied you know Study the biology of human beings and there was a the whole eugenics movement. This is scientific the idea of Differences between races on a scientific basis was the eugenics movements in the United States in the early 20th century that blend blood into You know that influenced to some extent the Nazis of the 30s and 40s And that's what it leads to and it leads to nothing else and IQ is just another derivative of the eugenics movement in the way it's being used today and It's I mean in my view. It's disgusting You don't group people like that You want to study culture and intelligence? Sure, because I think there's a feedback mechanism there, but to study race in any way is Worse than useless it is a foil for racism and a disguise ultimately for races And even if people are doing it innocently they will become tools of the racists which you are seeing right now I'm sure I don't think Charles Murray is necessarily a racist But the bell curve has been used Significantly by racists and will continue to be used so I mean I Stefan Marlin you is is despicable and again civilization history is driven by Ideas ideas. I does anybody know what the race of Thomas Aquinas was Italians have a particular IQ on average for Italians. Does that reflect on Thomas Aquinas on his IQ? I mean he was a genius, but is that because he's Italian are the geniuses of other races who might have discovered Aristotle's work and done what Thomas Aquinas did with I mean that whole line of reasoning is pathetic and non-intellectual and Denies denies Free will and denies You know what you make of yourself and denies individual ability Thomas Aquinas is Thomas Aquinas who cares if he's Italian white gray green blue yellow and the people who picked it up We're not Ashkenazi Jews the smartest people in the world Supposedly the people who picked it up were Italian monks and Spanish monks who then were called the scholastics and studied the stuff and later on It was picked up in northern Europe and battles within Europe about these ideas and and and really released of you know People like Michelangelo was Michelangelo come from any kind of genetic stock. That's particularly good I mean I want to talk about Michelangelo when we talk about flaunts because I think Michelangelo's story is a fascinating one In one wonders, you know, what happens to Michelangelo's of today But I mean no this whole way of thinking this whole way of Excuse me. This whole way of non-thinking. It's it's a way to eliminate thinking It's a way to disguise cause and effect And it's an away in the end just to embellish and to promote xenophobia racism nationalism collectivism all the different forms of collectivism And all collectivism is evil all collectivism is bad There are no forms of collectivism. They're good. There's no collectivism at the right. That's good collectivism the left That's evil. No, they're all evil All right, here's another IQ question I'm also skeptical about IQ a healthy person with low IQ scores is not the same as a brain damaged person High IQ not the same as a genius who makes great art or science. I think that's absolutely right. Intelligence is a far more complex Question and of course it's what you do Well, let's say there is such a thing as raw intelligence and I'm not even sure what that is But let's assume that there is Some people have bigger brains more dense brains than other people But then what what do you do with it? I as I've said I think before I know a lot of really high IQ people who are really really stupid Really really dumb They don't know what to do with the right IQ or they use it for bad purposes that leads to failure in their own life And I know people with low IQ you could say Low tools who've made amazing lives for themselves Who are trying everybody who will cry, you know, who just are better at something some aspect of of using their minds And what does it mean to use your mind? Some people are very good at some aspects and not very good at others. I know people who are brilliant at math And can't do anything else I know people who allows you at math, but have this amazing ability to integrate information And to think philosophically And I know people who are good at math and good at integrating I you know I know people who are fantastic at spatial relationships Or who are amazing artists Does Roger Federer have a high IQ? I mean to be An athlete at that level you have to have a kind of intelligence that's rare I don't know if that's manifest in IQ or not But it's a kind of intelligence. It's an application of intelligence a particular thing To to you know to to managing your body in a particular way to Monitoring your body and being able to correct mistakes to and to handle stress and a million other things But is that measured by one number IQ all those skills the artistic skill the athletic skill the the the the Mathematics skill the the scientific skill the historical skill the philosophical skill. I mean that to me is absurd Any relevant who cares? I don't know what my IQ is And I don't really care. I have no interest I mean the people who think I'm pretty smart and the people who think I'm the dumbest person on the planet What differences are made? You know I'm pretty I I'm pretty I I impress myself Often with uh, some aspects of my intelligence and then other days I go. Oh my god. How could I be that stupid? And that's brute force is the only avenue of action open to men who regard themselves as mindless aggregates of chemicals Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind So there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement There are only individual minds and individual achievements And a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiated masses But the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men Even if it were proved which it is not that the incidents of men of potentially superior brain power is greater Among the members of certain races than among the members of others It would still tell us nothing about any given individual and it would be irrelevant to one's judgment of him A genius is a genius regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race And a moron is a moron regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin The question of whether one alleges the superiority or the inferiority of any given race is irrelevant Racism has only one psychological root the racist's sense of his own inferiority Like every other form of collectivism racism is a quest for the unearned It is a quest for automatic knowledge For an automatic evaluation of men's characters that bypasses the responsibility of exercising rational or moral judgment And above all a quest for an automatic self-esteem or pseudo self-esteem Thank you