I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris

[paulpablo]

I would be facepalming but I expect you to say idiotic things.

IQ is absolutely not a measure of intelligence. Only idiots think it is

Brain plasticity makes differences between races mean nothing when it comes to intelligence. Most people have idiot brains but people of all races are capable of having intelligent brains and those brains make more and stronger connections and basically understand things deeper. Race and IQ say nothing about intelligence.

I just said in the post you're responding to that I understand the skepticism of IQ relating to intelligence.

My point is that if you have a quantifiable value, which is intelligence.

Your claim is that each race is equal in this quantifiable value.

So the questions I would raise are by what method are you measuring this value to end up with the results that each race is precisely equal in terms of intelligence if IQ isn't a valid measurement.

Also why would the brain be different from every other human body part.

If you measure average height, hand length, metabolism, different types of muscle fibers among the races they'll all be unequal/different. Even if it's down to a minuscule amount.

Even outside of the topic of race and intelligence if you have ANY sort of value that's quantifiable and and measurable and take ANY sort of groups of people to measure these quantities with, the odds of them having exactly the same quantity of this value are near enough impossible.