Charles Murray

@charlesmurray

Husband, father, social scientist, writer, Madisonian. Or maybe right-wing ideologue, pseudoscientist, evil. Opinions differ.

Burkittsville, MD
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Joined February 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Sep 2021

    Call me naive, but when I began a 500-page book on the role of genetics in social science (Human Diversity) with this statement at the end of the introduction...

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  2. 21 hours ago

    So far Disraeli has 2 votes, one from the nearly infallible , Churchill has 1, and Henry Ford II has one.

    Replying to @The_IPR @charlesmurray
    Charles' version is usually attributed to Churchill.
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  3. Jan 4

    I think you're right. I stand corrected. I don't think Iacocca originated it, but I'm not sure.

    Replying to @charlesmurray
    I thought it was “Never complain, never explain.” — Lee Iacocca
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  4. Jan 4

    Good conversation, it seemed to me.

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  5. Jan 4

    It's such a joy to read something in the MSM that is informed by broad and deep historical knowledge. Not such a joyful topic, however.

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  6. Jan 3

    Not an article. An extremely important book that antedates all those articles except a 3-page one by Hayek.

    Replying to @__peterdoyle__ @charlesmurray
    and haven't read that article, but there's been many dozens of others in similar vein over the years
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  7. Jan 3

    The main point is that Scarr was an honest scholar even when it wasn’t convenient. Everything else is rounding error.

    Replying to @PaoloShirasi @NoahCarl90 and 6 others
    I would guess she became one later in life after the MSTR. See her piece in the Jensen tribute issue.
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  8. Jan 3

    See Sowell’s Knowledge and Decisions for elaboration.

    The Chinese model will fail because China has become addicted to state power when seeking solutions:
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  9. Jan 3

    “Never apologize, never explain.” Very macho, and I formerly quoted it approvingly. Early in our relationship, my wife pointed out that it’s also a good definition of an asshole.

    This may be a little esoteric for a Twitter question. Oh well! What's something that you used to believe because you read a very convincing essay/quote/epigram about it - and then, after getting some real life experience, stopped believing?
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  10. Jan 3

    Her honesty in confronting the data about family structure, which required her to dispute many colleagues and disown some of her own early positions, was a model for everyone who works on politicized topics.

    So sorry to report sociologist Sara McLanahan died 12/31/21. A teacher of mine at Princeton, she was extraordinarily gracious, fair-minded, and relentless in pursuit of unvarnished truth about family life in America. ’s remembrance conveys her dedication to the truth:
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  11. Jan 3

    This seems eminently sane.

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  12. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2021

    Teach your kids about 1776 AND 1619. About the Constitution and the Fugitive Slave Act. About Normandy beaches and Japanese internment camps. About Frederick Douglas’ 1852 speech on the bitterness of July 4 for slaves but also his 1876 speech praising Lincoln. Teach it all!

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    Jan 1

    Students: May I suggest a couple of New Year's resolutions? 1) If you don't have a smart friend who disagrees with you about important things that you deeply care about, make one. 2) Resist groupthink and self-censorship. Think for yourself; seek the truth; speak your mind.

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  14. 30 Dec 2021

    This is not new. Its coverage of cognitive science has been egregiously slanted for decades.

    Replying to @NAChristakis @sciam @AliceDreger
    Scientific American has had a political correctness problem for a while. A blogger got fired by them because of a guest blog post by me back in 2014
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  15. 30 Dec 2021

    Scientific American is neck and neck with the contemporary ACLU for the Most Misleading Name Award.

    wilson was every inch the scientist, he became a writer, a synthesizer. what a life of the mind to the end! not perfect. he bloviated, he dismissed mathematical fluency too much and had sharp elbows. but this swipe? have you no honor? have you no shame?
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  16. 28 Dec 2021

    Watched Don't Look Up last night. A great premise & great cast for timeless political/cultural satire (pols & media being frivolous about looming catastrophe). But the ham-handed climate-change allegory got awfully tedious.

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  17. 28 Dec 2021

    #1 and #2 would be helpful for identifying the top fraction of the top percentile. #3 is my favorite, for reasons explained back in 2007.

    Replying to @charlesmurray
    How could we reform college admissions testing? 1. Adaptive computerized testing using all 40,000 vocab words 2. Shrink SAT to a pure IQ test: e.g., bring back analogies 3. Mandate SAT Subject or Advanced Placement tests: Preppers would at least learn some Chem or History
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    2 May 2021

    New preprint out, in press at American Psychologist, where I explore how malleable cognitive abilities really are, through the lens of popular brief interventions à la mindset, stereotype threat, brain training, video gaming, and the like 1/8

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  19. 28 Dec 2021

    The effects of test prep that mostly white upper-middle-class kids get have been studied extensively. But this is a study worth doing.

    Replying to @asymmetricinfo @CaitlinPacific @GarrettTaylor
    Asians' average scores on the SAT have been pulling away from everybody else in this century. It seems plausible that test prep at levels that no social scientist has ever tested in one reason.
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  20. 27 Dec 2021

    There's the last few chapters of TBC. All of Part IV of Human Accomplishment. The last chapter of Coming Apart. The first four chapters of By the People. But apart from that, no.

    Replying to @misha_saul @charlesmurray
    Has Murray explained why so much seems to be getting worse despite generations of meritocrats running things? had a good column about this about ten years ago, though I don't recall any solutions offered.
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  21. 27 Dec 2021

    I once had the chance to watch three of these herd a few thousand sheep for a couple of miles in Tasmania across creeks and through wooded areas on a working sheep farm. Directed entirely by whistles. Instantaneous reactions, incredible skill. One of my most memorable mornings.

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