/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11056860
Maybe not a single gene, but he's not exactly wrong.

>>11056860
He’s right. I think most blacks who actually play sports will admit privately that they’re genetically gifted as a group compared to other races. University educated liberal blacks seem to be the only people from that race who are convinced the clear advantage of west african descended individuals is due to greater focus on field sports during childhood.

but african blacks are also good at running

>>11056860
The title of the article is badly phrased and seems to imply that the ability to run faster is due to selection of black people under slavery, which there never was any. American Slavery was probably the first environment where the ability to run fast was not evolutionarily beneficient.

>>11056903
Distance running. North America dominates sprinting.

But only the slow ones got caught???

>>11056860
Stupid negroid. Their bones are lighter and they have longer leg muscles. That's it. Sure some slaves were bred but that does not account for the aforementioned.
Just like other races there are short nonmuscular and fat people too. If their genetics are superior why can't they unify, why is their IQ usually lower, why can't they digest milk enough to aid their less dense bone structure?

>>11057179
>North America dominates sprinting
no, your african descendant nignogs dominate sprinting

>>11057237
huh, I wonder why that is.

NO it's because of cultural conditioning

>>11056860
He's right. West Africans excel at running, since they have longer legs relative to their torsos, whereas Europeans excel at things like powerlifting.

>>11057237
And those African descendents are north americans, given they live on the continent for several generations. Same thing with European descendents, etc.
Unless you're trying to say only injuns are north Americans

>>11056860
>>11056861
>>11056880
Only for certain sports, such as sprinting or bodybuilding. Swimming, weightlifting, and many other events are dominated by Europeans.

>>11056860
Yes and so europeans are stronger for the same reason right?

>>11056860
Suppose slave owners bred their slaves to run better and ignore for a while that it offers no benefit in terms of productivity of picking cotton and makes it easier for them to run away.
Why are then Africans whose ancestors weren't enslaved still good at running?

>>11056880
>most blacks who actually play sports will admit privately that they’re genetically gifted
in other words, the ones who aren't into data, analysis, and logic jump to the conclusion that their group must be innately superior. in effect, black /pol/tards.
no surprise there

>>11056860
the sample sizes are hopelessly skewed in favor of one """race""" or another.
if groups aren't even close to proportionally represented in a game at large, of course they won't have proportionate representation at the highest level of said game.
why are the majority of elite starcraft players korean? where are all the japanese and chinese players?
i know, it must be the APM gene. plus that extra mouse finger tendons they have.

>>11057237
I'm pretty sure only black Americans and Jamaicans dominate sprinting. African blacks actually don't win at sprinting.The implication is that slavery might've had some sort of selective pressure going on.

>>11058775
>why are the majority of elite starcraft players korean? where are all the japanese and chinese players?
Well, China does have a reasonably large RTS community with some crazy good players, though they are more into WC3 and Age of Empires 2.

>>11058775
How come the phenomena is also present in experiments?

>>11058792
Everyone knows that CK2 and Warband are the real games, for real men.

>>11058775
>using quotes on the word race

>>11057237
Johnson is saying slaves had specific selection pressures. Not that all blacks are superior athletically.

>>11058366
Weaker slaves died on the ships. Selection was done before they got here.

>>11056860
the original Daily Mail article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167064/London-2012-Olympics-Michael-Johnson-descendants-slaves-medals-sprint-finals.html

>>11058366
>Suppose slave owners bred their slaves to run better
Slave breeding was never an actual thing in the USA (where it was in fact illegal in several states like Tennessee or Georgia) or the English colonies.
>productivity of picking cotton
Cotton only became a thing after 1800 so we're talking about at most 60 years of cotton slavery.
>>11058894
Equal percentages of white and black people died on the ships and selection pressures were primarily carried out by tropical diseases and scurvy.