January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

athletes in the world! Differences in reflexes of less than a split second ,
make all the difference in perfomance at this level.Which would suggest a very
small difference in the total population overall.
Hey,R.S.,your falling prey to your own accusations of racial stereotyping. I am
a retired ironworker. I worked with native americans from New York frequently.
Aside from having a radically diferent lifestyle and outlook on their future
lives,their skills were no different than the white and black ironworkers.Their
having supperior skills connecting,"high iron",is another racial myth .It's
insulting!! The number of native American ironworkers is a small percentage of
the men who have built this country.I would be very interested in the source of
your information as regards any neurological studies that have proved
conclusively that Indians demonstrate better balance,whatever that
means.Also,I'd be fascinated by conclusive proof that American Indians have a
different hip structure,endemic only to Indians,that somehow gives them an
advantage in walking high iron. Working in the air has nothing to do with
balence skills.It is a phycological state of mind that comes with
time,practice,and mentoring from all the tougher,stronger,older guys.Oh,yes,and
also a three year apprenticeship program. If I laid a six inch beam on the
ground,you or any one else could not only walk it , but probably dance on it! If
I take that same beam two hundred feet up in the air, you would freeze and be
unable to take a step.|
|11/26/03 06:52:39 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Sorry to here that Forest. I wanted
to ask you by the way whether you ever attended Quarry fights back in the 1960's
or 1970's or any other major battles that took place then.Evren|
|11/26/03 07:30:15 PM|Mr. B|Sydney||same||||10|Roadscholarette, you are not
responding directly to my points in repudiation of your earlier claims. Your
lack of response must be due either to: 1) Lack of understanding2)
Stubbornness, willful or otherwise3) Insincerity4) Relative ignorance of
research and research techniques5) Combinations of these At any
rate: 1. Please define race. 2. Identify which areas of body
chemistry (e.g. systems, phenomena) and what levels (e.g., cellular, hormonal,
etc.) are not understood or well understood by scientists. 3. If you
are saying one or more areas are not ABSOLUTELY understood -- meaning
completely, perfectly -say so, please. 4. Prove your allegation that
black men are much more likely to be taller than white men. I argue that the
level of height and distribution of levels is closely comparable, with the
exception that there is a statistically insignificant taller group of black men
(probably about 1% of total, from Masai, etc.) 5. Discuss and defend
your assertion that black men are "obviously" better athletes in even one sport.
Kent has shown that an all-star white team is on par with a black one. Also
account for white domination of bowling and thoroughbred riding, where many
blacks also participate. 6. You say you have no need to have a reason
to believe "the obvious", while in fact that's exactly why you believe this
idea, because you perceive it as obvious. You're like a dog chasing his own
tail, then. Several of us have shown this perceived obviousness is anything but
obvious. What is your motive in believing this, then? Statistics can be
a much more complex discipline that most of you friends seem to realize. Even a
longtime boxing fanatic like Roadscholarette has seen only about 15,600 boxers
in her life. (Assuming 10 new ones a week for 52 weeks for 30 years.) (Of
course, at his age, Massimo has seen a million.) This 15,600 is a
minute sample of all the world’s boxers in the last 30 years. Therefore, you
cannot argue perceptions dependent upon visual samples – it will be unreliable,
invalid, and dependent on vaguely related factors, e.g., how many beers you
drank at the arena that night. Instead of starting from the outside, then, we
must start from the inside and basic principles. One of them is that there is no
such thing as race. Another is that there is no significant difference between
so-called racial groups. Three, for every black champion, we can point to at