Steve, the fact is – the academic consensus says Murray's wrong @johndjordan31
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LOL, are you sure about that: http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf …
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There's rarely a full academic consensus on anything but most now accept Murray's methods were flawed
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Murray's methods are the methods of soc science & are flawed in the same sense that all soc science is flawed.
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Murray wrote a good piece on the flagrant disingenuity of many Bell Curve critics: http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdfview_1/euclid.ss/1124891290 …
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Heckman has admitted that The Bell Curve had a huge influence on his thinking: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/interview-with-james-heckman …pic.twitter.com/559NNiv1uK
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In "Bell Curve's" Acknowledgments, Nobelist Heckman is 1st name thanked. Heckman was chief reader of TBC before pubpic.twitter.com/qA0LIVJOn3
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Er, The Bell Curve is pretty much universally rejected, by Left and Right, due to blatant methodological flaws.
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... i.e. it's not debunked because of 'Un-PC' ideas, but because the 'science' doesn't withstand scrutiny.
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Specifically which claims were debunked? Where is your evidence?
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All this "debunking" and yet blacks remain stupid and ineducable. Racist schoolteachers must be holding them back!
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Of course there's also a 'vast body' of work debunking heliocentrism, but good luck convincing a geocentrist it's all crap.
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Do you also organize mobs to violently shut down geocentric speeches?
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Only while Mercury is in retrograde.
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or Kansas City spending a billion dollars on public schools under court order
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