there's nothing wrong with it but it's wise to realize that the data you're using to draw your conclusions does have flaws and in no way makes your conclusions concrete
I'm not even trying to say that inbreeding is why muslims are kooky, or that they are even kooky, but to deny that inbreeding causes iq loss is weird to me.
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"it irks me when people use statistics to form an opinion on a worldview i do not personally agree with therefore it is improper use"
i never said i disagreed with anything being stated in the thread lol
then its important to make the distinction between speculation and "fact" and realize that no matter what you believe about the situation there is no concrete evidence to back it up
you can't make conclusions from observational studies because you can't control all the factors that could possibly be contributing to what you're measuring
unless you can get people to agree to purposely inbreed, give each inbred child exactly the same treatment as non-inbred children and other inbred children, record their theoretical intelligence levels, and repeat this process for several generations, you can't conclusively state that one causes the other.
You are actually arguing that inbreeding doesn't harm Intelligence levels. Inbreeding- that is to say, your cousin. And you mean to tell me that that doesn't decrease intelligence levels?
then its important to make the distinction between speculation and "fact" and realize that no matter what you believe about the situation there is no concrete evidence to back it up
you can't make conclusions from observational studies because you can't control all the factors that could possibly be contributing to what you're measuring
then its important to make the distinction between speculation and "fact" and realize that no matter what you believe about the situation there is no concrete evidence to back it up
then its important to make the distinction between speculation and "fact" and realize that no matter what you believe about the situation there is no concrete evidence to back it up
unless you can get people to agree to purposely inbreed, give each inbred child exactly the same treatment as non-inbred children and other inbred children, record their theoretical intelligence levels, and repeat this process for several generations, you can't conclusively state that one causes the other.