There is something bizarre about “high-IQ” as an identity core like with Mensa. Like a trade union of capitalists or a commune of libertarians. Or that South Park joke about the anti-semitic sect of Judaism. Shouldn’t you be winning Nobels, rather than performing identity?
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I'm partial to McWhorter's position on the topic though. He's said a few times something like "it really sucks that even the academics aren't allowed to talk about it amongst themselves without calling down a shitstorm. Non-academics should probably just drop it entirely."
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There’s a sort of justification to that condition of discourse. It’s the social science equivalent of nuclear weapons research. Needs tighter regulation not because there are no truths there, but because even the slightest mistakes are so damn costly.
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I can agree with that stance. Would be happier if better people than Voxsplaining were doing the regulating.
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