# Race is non-existent

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-is-non-existent/643100>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 5, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-is-non-existent/643100 "2012-12-05T18:28:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-is-non-existent/643100/1061 "2013-03-05T03:50:11Z")

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> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> This is the reason the world chess champion is an elephant.

Heh. Just to clarify, I’m referring to research on humans 🙂 ( more seriously, note that a human brain is a far greater proportion of body weight than an elephants).

> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> \*4. Mixed race individual perform intermediate to monoracial individuals. \*
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> Excellent elision of the truth, which is that there’s no correlation between percentage of African heritage and IQ (which is, by the way, the biggest problem with the genetic argument)

Except there is. Or to put it another way, those with greater european ancestry tend to perform better on psychometric measures. Which is what you would expect according to the evolutionary argument.

> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> \*5. Difference correlates with physical indexes of Caucasian admixture in the Black population. \*
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> No idea what this means, but if you’re saying that people who look white (but aren’t) test better than people who look black, then I’d say you just shot your argument in the foot.

It means that people with greater caucasion ancestry tend to score higher.

If darker skin colour was linked to lower scores both between siblings and between families then it would be consistent with a colorist/discrimination type argument. But when you check the relationship between siblings as opposed to between families - you’ll see that isn’t the case. There is an analysis of the NLSY97 sample [here](http://humanvarieties.org/2013/02/22/colorism-in-america-1/).

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