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@ezraklein probably a good idea to write a piece attempting to end this author's career and I spose those of the teachers and parents that took the survey too -
That’s exaggeration. Klein has not suggested that IQ is not heritable. He said that’s not the issue to focus on. It’s easy to do an (1/6)
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uncharitable read when he doesn’t align with the tribe. That was his point. It was also Harris’s point. Harris argues IQ is (2/6)
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heritable. Klein argues IQ is heritable and that history plays into that heritability: eg lack of resources, poverty, a history of (3/6)
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enslavement affecting the health and ability of those who’ve passed on their genes. He skirts around this, and I find some fault in (4/6)
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his ability to admit the central point, but he’s never as far as I can tell outright denied it. Only called attention to its context, (5/6)
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which he feels supplants its importance. (6/6)
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But as I show in the article Steven, the "left's tabula rasa myth" is perhaps itself something of a straw man. Most scientists I know are lefties, and never had any problem with the heritability of intelligence. Ditto teachers, apparently.
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People are fine with genes having some influence but still have trouble with accepting that upbringing and even schooling have much less influence than we thought.
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Also there is a big difference between paying lip service and accepting the implications.
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For the uninitiated: How could sorting kids into classes with other kids of similar expectable performance outcomes not necessarily be a policy implication of this? So that every kid at every level
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Has the opportunity to learn as much as they possibly can?
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So kids of lowest ability learn as much as they possibly can be being with other kids of lowest ability? That doesn't seem obvious to me.
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basic theory is kids that learn at similar speeds are more likely to benefit from the questions asked by similar students in class, and a teacher noting that multiple kids in that class struggle with specific material can adjust pace in a way that will help a higher portion
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I’d be more excited about finding the heritability / genes responsible for wisdom, compassion, magnanimity, tolerance, and empathy because I think those lead to more fulfilling lives and have more value to the world.
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Aren’t these are mostly IQ related?
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