Thank god that at least one culture with a healthy sense of scientific inquiry is not self-hobbled by political correctness, where truth takes a back seat to what political philosophy requires to be true. H/T to Fjordman for finding this excellent article from the Economist, I very much look forward to the highly predictible results of this investigation. For those who cannot wait, I would suggest preparing yourselves for it by reading the excellent book, ‘Human Accomplishment’ by Charles Murray which does a historical enquiry of all human achievement in order to know the same thing.
Below, an excerpt from the Economist:
But the organisation is involved in even more controversial projects. It is about to embark on a search for the genetic underpinning of intelligence. Two thousand Chinese schoolchildren will have 2,000 of their protein-coding genes sampled, and the results correlated with their test scores at school. Though it will cover less than a tenth of the total number of protein-coding genes, it will be the largest-scale examination to date of the idea that differences between individuals’ intelligence scores are partly due to differences in their DNA.
Dr Yang is also candid about the possibility of the 1,000-genome project revealing systematic geographical differences in human genetics—or, to put it politically incorrectly, racial differences. The differences that have come to light so far are not in sensitive areas such as intelligence. But if his study of schoolchildren does find genes that help control intelligence, a comparison with the results of the 1,000-genome project will be only a mouse-click away.
At the moment this frenetic activity is paid for mostly by regional development grants and loans from state-owned Chinese banks, but Dr Yang hopes to go properly commercial. The Hong Kong operation will work partly as a contractor, and Mr Wong hopes to persuade biologists around the world to send their samples in and have them sequenced there rather than relying on their own universities to do the sequencing. Whether the BGI’s researchers can turn their mass-produced DNA sequences into new scientific insights and bankable products remains to be seen, but the world is watching.
Those same Chinese will use there knowledge of what makes people’s IQ higher to create a more intelligent stock of Chinese people.
Something tells me that the OIC (the Organization of the Islamic C***suckers) might ask the folks responsible for this project not to publish their findings on the IQ of the ayrab Middle East, North Africa and Porkistan… It would also certainly get in the way of Buraq Hussein’s choice as NASA’s top priority, that nonsense about making mahoundians feel good about contributions to science, math and engineering that they never made, but rather unduly took credit for.