# Once again, a pitting of our local pseudo-scientific racialists **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-a-pitting-of-our-local-pseudo-scientific-racialists/646184 "2013-01-05T19:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 169
**Author:** ![Inbred\_Mm\_domesticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aca169/32.png) [@Inbred\_Mm\_domesticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inbred_Mm_domesticus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-a-pitting-of-our-local-pseudo-scientific-racialists/646184/169 "2013-01-07T03:24:46Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > The Minnesota twin study gets about as close as you can get without actually changing the skin color of the participants. Yet still be hopelessly confounded. It’s actually a pretty useless study for the question it is believed by many to address. > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Did you miss the part where they say it is implausible that the difference between races is entirely attributable to environment? Did you only read the part where they say it is implausible that it is entirely due to race? They couldn’t possibly make a determination one way or another. > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > They want to prove an absolute when the truth is probably a lot more nuanced than they want to admit so the pit works a lot better for them…Of course its a lot more nuanced than you care to admit too. The replicable results we have for understanding the nature of ethnic differences in test scores are those that show the influence of environmental variables. There is no data relating genetic variation in some gene(s) influencing intelligence and population differences in intelligence. I’m not even sure there are genes associated with intelligence in a replicable fashion. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-a-pitting-of-our-local-pseudo-scientific-racialists/646184)._