I have a close friend who’s a college grad and published fiction writer who was working at a Borders back then… and is African-American. A white lady walked in to purchase the Murray book and loudly spelled B.E.L.L. C.U.R.V.E so he’d know how to find it for her. <sigh>
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I don't see Block in the linked article making any of the assertions implicitly attributed to him—esp that if you hold the environment fixed then the differences in a trait must be due to genetic differences. (I don't see any argument *for* that in what *you* linked, though.)
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I recommend this too: http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html
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Something more recent, from some giants in the field: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech …
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It's very good, and makes a number of important points. Here was my 3-tweet attempt to make one of the major points:https://twitter.com/kendmil/status/980689164726304768 …
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I discovered this essential article, showing that, once differences in culturally acquired knowledge are controlled for, there is no racial difference in g factor or IQ: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289606001085?via%3Dihub … This was pointed to by this excellent blog post: http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html
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