How much should you trust IQ etc. information from The Guardian? Experts answer: not so much http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7113 pic.twitter.com/v1TpK0yAO7
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I just wonder who came up with the label. It strikes me as a term that was coined by a leftist to belittle the traditional view that, obviously, genetics heavily influences IQ. That seems so obviously correct it's arguably pejorative to classify it as a school of thought.
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What does it say about theories of biological differences that the racial gap held for boys but not girls?
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Use of the word "hereditarian" peaks in 1994, with negative coverage of "The Bell Curve." That it's being employed to tar scholars who are making routine observations about reality is illustrated by this negative review of the book: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1071441970190110?journalCode=gred20 ….
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@CharlesMurray: "Hereditarian" was a term coined in 1906 to criticize the eugenics movement. https://twitter.com/BadgerPundit/status/976157628702318592 …. Shameful that it was then employed to criticize scholars doing honest, transparent work in an effort to improve policymaking.
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I don’t know if Francis Galton’s work is an eg of "hereditarianism." He certainly maintained that heredity plays a significant role in determining human nature and character traits. http://galton.org/hereditarian.html …pic.twitter.com/YICJLio4Kt
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Of course it is. He's the father of behavioral genetics.
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