Yes, but there are level of beliefs that can be assigned to arbitrary hypothesis. Consider the fact(s) that
1) the scientific consensus agrees that most human being are almost equivalent in skills and intelligence to form decent social structures
2) Africa has a billion plus human being, the scale at which laws of large number dictates that their overall behavior should be close to human mean.
3) there have been advanced cultures in Africa in past, as recent as just before European colonization.
Keeping that in mind, reasonable people would agree that Africans are not inferior merely due to continent they are born upon. Is this the scientific level of proof that matches the 5 sigma precision coming out of LHC? No. But it is reasonable to expect so, and no proper scientific resources are being devoted to this micro-study, after most of Science has already has rejected idea that one large group of humans could be statistically inferior to other large group.
As a side note, you might not have realized it, but similar arguments have been used (and are still being used) by people who want to raise a rhetorical question, like how do you know that evolution explains x,y,z fact? More often than not, these people do not have intention of genuine questioning but rather want to show that ignorance of one detailed thought experiment is enough to discredit entire field of scientific evidence. It is thus not surprising that people would think that you belong to one of that group.
It doesn't matter what's probable or not. I never claimed any specific conclusion about Africans. I only claimed the OP's assertions that it must not be some intrinsic factor to be false. It is literally as simple as that.
Yes, but there are level of beliefs that can be assigned to arbitrary hypothesis. Consider the fact(s) that
1) the scientific consensus agrees that most human being are almost equivalent in skills and intelligence to form decent social structures
2) Africa has a billion plus human being, the scale at which laws of large number dictates that their overall behavior should be close to human mean.
3) there have been advanced cultures in Africa in past, as recent as just before European colonization.
Keeping that in mind, reasonable people would agree that Africans are not inferior merely due to continent they are born upon. Is this the scientific level of proof that matches the 5 sigma precision coming out of LHC? No. But it is reasonable to expect so, and no proper scientific resources are being devoted to this micro-study, after most of Science has already has rejected idea that one large group of humans could be statistically inferior to other large group.
As a side note, you might not have realized it, but similar arguments have been used (and are still being used) by people who want to raise a rhetorical question, like how do you know that evolution explains x,y,z fact? More often than not, these people do not have intention of genuine questioning but rather want to show that ignorance of one detailed thought experiment is enough to discredit entire field of scientific evidence. It is thus not surprising that people would think that you belong to one of that group.