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  • What's wrong with discussing IQ

    The subject line can be read as a statement and as a question. What is wrong about most of the published discussions about IQ is that they jump to conclusions and policy implications without looking a crucial aspects of the research and models of intelligence. For a nice paragraph-length summary of the problem, see Stephen Pinker's new book ...
    Posted to Human Nature by millipede on December 2, 2007

  • Re: Neither Race or IQ Scientifically Valid

    BJ&TheBear: In walks the science: In one of the most extensive of these studies to date, considering 1,056 individuals from 52 human populations, with each individual genotyped for 377 autosomal microsatellite markers, we found that individuals could be partitioned into six main genetic clusters, five of which corresponded to Africa, ...
    Posted to Human Nature by gzuckier on November 29, 2007

  • Rational Racism

    Perhaps Saletan is here founding a new movement (at least a new movement to give an old movement a respectable public face): Rational Racism. I suspect that what resonates as most existentially aggravating about thinking such as Saletan displays here, to those of us it rubs wrong, lies below the threshold of any reified logic: we intuit a ...
    Posted to Human Nature by mcdonald on November 26, 2007

  • Show me the DNA

    ''The lowest black IQ averages in the U.S. show up in the South, where the rate of genetic blending is lowest'', as evidence of a genetic link. If there were NO actual genetic effect of race on IQ, and ALL the perceived effect was due to bias in development, wouldn't you still see exactly the same effect?
    Posted to Human Nature by gzuckier on November 19, 2007

  • High Jewish IQs / Racist Dr. Watson

    So, how might the idea of higher intelligence in the Jewish ethnic group relate to the controversy surrounding the recent comments of geneticist Dr. Watson? Are the ideas presented by Mr. Saletan really that different from the comments that got Dr. Watson run out of town?
    Posted to Human Nature by DrKruger on November 2, 2007

  • Re: morgan, please elucidate...

    Deduction, I agree with you in your comments regarding race. Beyond superficial indicators, there is no real thing. However, race is a very real social phenomenon, and has very real consequences. I'm not sure what studies morgan is referring to g loading regarding culture loaded vs. culture free tests, but it should be noted that there is a ...
    Posted to Human Nature by infinityplus on November 1, 2007