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Originally Posted by photon
If someone tested one group of people and found that that group could, on average, jump higher than another group, then that's neither good nor evil, it's just a statement of fact.
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Not only that, but you also have the premise for a half-funny early 90s comedy starring Woody Harrelson.
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Originally Posted by photon
Same thing with intelligence, it's a combination of genetics and training. So that one group of people would have lower intelligence on average than another group seems like a reasonable thing to happen.
However testing intelligence isn't as easy to test as how high someone can jump.
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The problem with measuring intelligence is that there are so many other contributing factors other than training and genetics. Part of it may also be motivation - which in itself, can also be related to genetics and training.
But probably one of the biggest factors (I think) is wealth. Wealth is often directly tied to nutrition and it is scientifically proven that malnutrution leads to dulled cognitive development in mammals. Genetically, the person might be well equipped to develop a high intelligence, and perhaps the training was attempted as well, but the environmental factors were an obstacle.