[jhpriestley]

Hmm, which geneticist coined the term? Oh, it was VDARE contributor Steve Sailer? The one who writes about black genetic inferiority and Jewish control of the media?

[Veen]

No, it was probably the anthropologist Jonathan Marks, in his 1995 book entitled, curiously enough, Human Biodiversity.

[jhpriestley]

Ah, you're right, Marks clarifies that racists appropriated the term he coined (http://anthropomics2.blogspot.com/2019/12/i-coined-phrase-hu...). Siskind obviously was referring to the nazi/alt-right/nrx meaning of the term, associated with Sailer, though.

[jojobas]

Well, Jews are 3x over-represented in US Congress and to a variable degree in other high-effort, high-reward areas such as law and yes, media management.

Unless you'd suspect a conspiracy, there has to be a genetic or a cultural reason for that and the problem with that is that any such reason could plausibly apply to Black Americans.

[pseudalopex]

Biodiversity implies it isn't cultural.

[jojobas]

Adoption studies also don't suggest that. Ashkenazi Jews seem to actually have a different brain model.

[pseudalopex]

Different brain model?

Just say genetic if you mean genetic.

[jojobas]

Yes, a genetically different brain model.

https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jb...

[pseudalopex]

Brain model doesn't seem to be a common term. The linked paper uses the word model several times but not in a way that matches how used it.

I'm not going to debate the paper. For the benefit of anyone else reading here's a rebuttal.[1] I suggest reading both.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131029200900/https://www.ncas.r...