I think that many of the problems in sociology research would be resolved if physicists and mathematicians took over the field for 10 years. Yes, I'm aware that sounds arrogant and pretentious
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Did he make any lasting contributions in his foray into the IQ controversy? I don't think so.
He did. He was seemingly the first to propose the admixture study. https://arthurjensen.net/?p=838
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That would be an exception but, generally, I don't see him as having made lasting contributions given that no one reads or cites his papers on this topic and nothing has been built on his ideas.
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We cite them.
He's not at all PC, never underestimate the cowardice of academics when citing stuff. Our bibliometric study seemed to support this bc group diff papers were cited less on average.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480778/ … -
@gwern what do you think was his best contributions? He did some complex stuff debunking a model put forward in 1969 in response to Jensen. -
No one believed that model, so his point that it failed to fit the data didn't much matter. I think the admixture analysis was his only real contribution; a big one though, and likely more influential than misleading citation counting would indicate as everyone scrubs him.
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I dunno about that. Their model was the first quantitative attempt at a shared environment model to explain, was it not? It failed badly and I don't recall any serious follow up attempts.
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