Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Has the vox piece been updated? The quote I see there is word-for-word identical to the one in the image.

It's totally wrong. Makes it sound like @SamHarrisOrg claimed genetics of race diffs are settled, which neither he nor @charlesmurray claim.

What's confusing is that you make reference to a misquote with a highlight, but the highlighted quote is in the article verbatim.

Read more carefully, dude.

One of us is missing something but as yet I don't know who. The highlighted quote is in the article verbatim, that's as much as I know.

Just listen to the first 10 minutes of the podcast and read the Vox piece; you'll see where the Vox piece mis-represents.

I second Paul, you highlight a quote that is in the article verbatim and imply it's misquoted.

The article misquoted the podcast. That is the whole point. It's not that complicated, people.

And they're not hacks. They're 2 of the most influential behavior geneticists plus 1 of the most famous psychologists.

Yep, they're well-respected scientists, but they'd not good at journalistic fact-checking.

What am I missing? What's the misquote?

They put the highlighted sentence into an entirely different context than it was in in the podcast

I still don't see what's being misrepresented in the article.

Vox misuses a quote to claim Harris says "it's a fact" that differences between racial groups is based in part in genetics, when he doesn't.

Ah, I see. So they're basically conflating separate points. I can see how they'd make that mistake though. It's not necessarily malicious.

But @SamHarrisOrg took great pains to be careful on these points, as did @charlesmurray. Not an easy mistake if they listened carefully

Right there's the rub. "Listening carefully."