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Blacks (or African Americans) are less intelligent than other ethnicities, in average. We have information that satisfies your two criteria of supporting class information. Yet people on HN (liberals/progressives) will get upset with this fact.

Supporting classes:

1. Through employment, high school graduation, incarceration, and homicide rates.

2. Due to black cultural, male macho-independence, discrimination from non-blacks, and poor family values.

We have evidence for this, not from machine learning, but from human observation. Yet we're not allowed to use these statistically significant generalizations?

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Racewar threads are off topic on the grounds of ultimate tediousness.

All it leads to is flamewars, and no flamewar will ever resolve any of it. Meanwhile it poisons what we do care about: intellectual curiosity, and civil, substantive discussion.

Gwern has a nice bit somewhere about how you can either devote your entire life to this stuff or give up. Most of us, the vast majority, have given up. The rest of you true believers can take your stone tablets with "Science" engraved on them to some place where the audience actually likes it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005441 and marked it off-topic.

(Edit: your comment history has blatantly been breaking the HN guidelines about other things as well. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop doing that.)

Edit: ok, you probably have loads of comments to moderate and do this a lot, but this is a big shock to me - being accused of racewar is a bit of a "pull up".

Ok, I can see how we got here - next time I will just say "citations" but now that we have broached the subject that I am being monitored and have breeched guidelines - can you give specifics so I can learn something. If I ever do learn?

Please respond assuming my comment was not intended to troll, which it was not, even if it was badly worded.

Ps what's gwern?

PPS Stone tablets with science? I don't get the conjunction but it is really dismissive - just how often do you have to do this removal thing.

Sorry I'm late to seeing this, but you seem to have mistakenly thought that my comment applied to one of yours? It didn't—I was replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13006905.

"Blacks" are not "less intelligent" than "other ethnicities". Please race troll somewhere else.

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