On the topic of IQ, Stephen Jay Gould was a far-Left ideologue -- a charlatan, a liar, and a bully who never understood the basic science. His book 'The mismeasure of man' is still required reading in many universities.https://twitter.com/Quillette/status/1108258325542494208 …
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Oh c’mon, Gould was not a charlatan even if his book is biased. Overusing that word cheapens it and makes people who use it look bad.
I don't use the word charlatan lightly. Gould was a charlatan on IQ.
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Gould was a charlatan period. His attacks on evolutionary psychology were ugly and uninformed. And his “contributions” to evolutionary theory were mostly banal or unhelpful (e.g., punctuated equilibrium).
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I don’t think Chomsky’s ever had a nice word to say about EP either. Seems unnecessarily harsh towards Pinker for some reason too
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Considering the state of statistical analysis at the time (arguably still true today with different methods giving different heritability estimates), it was not an unreasonable position to be a skeptic.
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The article presents cases of lies andf forgery; if true that would make him a charlatan.
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