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*Augh! I'm caught! I've never read a word of the FAQ. You got me. [[User:MjolnirPants|<span style="color:#004400;">'''ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants'''</span>]] <small><small>[[User_talk:MjolnirPants|''Tell me all about it.'']]</small></small> 05:51, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
::Do people really not understand what I'm saying? None of what Generalrelative has cited has anything to do with the point that I'm making. I'll try to put it in different words. Let's say the variance in the genetically determined intelligence of a single person is <math>\sigma^2</math>. From the definition of variance, it follows that the variance of a sample mean of a group of people is <math>\sigma^2/n</math>, where n is the number of people in the group. Since this variance is non-zero, and since intelligence is a continuous (not discrete) quantity, it is then ''implied'' that the probability of two sample means ─ even if taken from the same parent population ─ of being exactly the same is zero. So it is in fact ''impossible'' for there not to be any genetic differences between any two groups of people. Once again, this conclusion is trivially true and follows directly from the assumption that intelligence is a continuous quantity. One doesn't need any knowledge in genetics to reach this conclusion. [[User:Maxipups Mamsipupsovich|Maxipups Mamsipupsovich]] ([[User talk:Maxipups Mamsipupsovich|talk]]) 12:32, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
== FAQ edit ==
I made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Race_and_intelligence/FAQ&diff=1029443689&oldid=1027160646 this edit] on the FAQ page, as well as [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Race_and_intelligence/FAQ&diff=1029444525&oldid=1029443689 this one]. Both edits got immediately reverted by [[user:NorthBySouthBaranof]] without explanation; naturally, I asked them for one on the talk page, but they haven't responded yet, and I thought I'd get a quicker response here. The first of my edits addresses the fact that the current version is slightly misleading, as it is written in such a way which is likely to mislead the reader into thinking that IQ is not a valid measure of any form of intelligence (especially by answering the question "doesn't IQ measure intelligence" with "not exactly"). It is generally agreed upon that this is not the case, and that IQ does actually measure some types of intelligence ─ just not all (as is actually explained by one of the sources provided in the FAQ). So my edit cleared up this confusion without changing the character of the answer, which conveys that IQ is not an all-encompassing measure of intelligence. The second edit replaced a dubious, America-centric example of Native Americans having the same features as Europeans (even though their phenotype is arguably more similar to that of East Asians) with a much clearer, more global example of North Indians, who actually came from the same Indo-European population as Europeans, so their connection to Europeans is unmistakable. Do people agree with NBSB's decision to revert both of these edits? [[User:Maxipups Mamsipupsovich|Maxipups Mamsipupsovich]] ([[User talk:Maxipups Mamsipupsovich|talk]]) 12:57, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
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