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Worst Candidate ALWAYS Wins U.S. Elections
Looking back on United States Presidential Election History, I have concluded that the WORST Candidate ALWAYS Wins the Election for the U.S. Presidency. I could cite all the examples, such as Wendel Wilkie, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and George H. Walker Bush (Senior) along with George W. Bush (Junior); but you get ...
Posted to Trailhead by MichaelBernard2 on September 25, 2008
Mr Hitchens -- Advocate of the Lizard Brain
Mr. Hitchens, If you haven't noticed... the country has been polarized since the 2000 election. Despite the disproportionate numbers of Republicans and Democrats in this country, all elections since then have been divided sharply down party lines. I love the fact that nobody mentions that blind adherence to party line has become de rigeur ...
Posted to Fighting Words by justicepsych on September 23, 2008
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
Re: how useful [/sarcasm]
And how close do you think we are to ''performance based meritocracy'' when we have more black men in the United States ending up in prison than in college? Is it just true that they don't naturally have what it takes to succeed in society? Are you suggesting that we medicate/operate because that's where science detects inadequacies? ...
Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 21, 2007
Re: The Mismeasure of Man
That's only if you prize one set of observations over another. In this case, Gould was observing inconsistencies in practice and using the basic scientific practices of today to interrogate the ways in which another era's less technologically-advanced scientists used social bias in order to fill the gaps and make big leaps towards questionable ...
Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 21, 2007
how useful [/sarcasm]
Cheers! to Falonia's comment. My history teacher in the 11th grade told us, in the context of teaching us about the intelligence tests of the Victorian era on down to the late fifties and about racial hierarchy in general, that Filipinos were considered pretty much ''the n-----s of Asia'' among other Asian populations (he was black BTW so he could ...
Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 21, 2007
Re: Were the jews this smart before the holocaust?
I think icemilkcoffee is, in some sense, kidding. S/he's not actually looking for someone to present him/her a list of things that people of Jewish descent have accomplished. Rather, s/h'es pointing out the irony that the Germans used ''lower intelligence'' based on ''IQ tests'' as a justification for their eradication from society.
Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 19, 2007
Re: The Mismeasure of Man
That's because it was a social science tract interrogating the basis for that science. Like everything else, science has a sociopolitical basis, and however many scientists may have believed that Gould was wrong in the details the reason why he continues to be referenced is because he's right to question the overall process by which we come to ...
Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 19, 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

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