nostalgebraist

you're probably the target audience of the "arcane and nerdy disagreements" Stu decided to skip over in his basic into :)

ah! but my exact complaint is that one /can't/ skip over those disagreements in the way he does (cf my thread w him)

so my disagreements with you are a) What I said about what people expected, including making analogy unfair by lack of it

just to follow up on that, i think a) may involve conflation of "intuitively surprising" and "worth contesting academically"

like, "smart" is a word. the "man on the street" talks about general intelligence all the time.

trust me, i have met lots of people who know of "g" only via gould's book, and that sort of thing

my perspective is, intelligence research has some issues at a v fundamental level and a good defense should tackle those

this is sort of unfair, in that there are "easier" misconceptions to dispel. otoh, mistakes by enemies aren't successes

mistakes of creationists aren't success of evolutionary theory but people didn't expect evolution,argued after proposed