One of the reasons I have no hope is seeing all these clueless blue check accounts going to bat for a eugenicist because Nerdy White Boy Write Good
It's this same sense of helpless disgust in the pit of my stomach I had seeing the #JeSuisCharlie circlejerk
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There was an NYT piece that profiled a supposed debunking of Gould and then a paper I recall defending Gould. I am just saddened that so many people fall for IQ tests as a measure of anything; nobody who gets into it has a coherent definition of intelligence even
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I mean, am I less smart than Alex Rodriguez who played a really good shortstop because I couldn’t likely handle the cognitive load of following the ball and positioning myself to make a 6-4-3 double play? I can do calculus and he can’t, but so what?
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I think you got it backwards. The Mismeasure of Man was comprehensively debunked. It falsified data
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What people found was that the measurements Morton took were not falsified; but that doesn't mean the data was valid for telling you anything. Gould didn't falsify anything - the criticism was about his analysis of the data.
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