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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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    1. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      3. There are unfair things in the Vox article, essentially imputing a far more extreme position to Murray than he espoused on the podcast.

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    2. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      4. But if you want to see junk science being peddled, take a look at this terrible *response* to the Vox article.http://quillette.com/2017/06/02/getting-voxed-charles-murray-ideology-science-iq/ …

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    3. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      5. This article provides many weak and absurd arguments in favour of a "hereditarian" hypothesis, not one of which shows any such thing.

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    4. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      6. They're warmed-over debating points based on weak research (often not even cited here) that we've heard a million times before.

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    5. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      7. The fact that half-arsed speculations like the "Cold Winters Theory" are being taken seriously by anyone tells you a lot about just...

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    6. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      7a. ...how little evidence there is in this area. This really is barrel-scraping to a ridiculous degree.

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    7. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      8. Talking about patterns of g-loadings etc. after *so many* papers (e.g. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616303233 …) have been written showing this method...

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    8. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      8a. ...is bullshit, is *definitely* junk science, and all the sadder because the papers were written by other IQ scholars who actually...

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    9. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      8b. ...care about getting stuff right rather than pushing a particular agenda.

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    10. Stuart Ritchie‏ @StuartJRitchie 2 Jun 2017
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      9. That's it for now. If you want me to go through all the points in detail I will, though I might have to take up drinking first.

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      Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 2 Jun 2017
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      I'd like to see you go through points in detail. Maybe a Hereditarianism Debate Drinking Game would make descent into alcoholism more fun?

      9:40 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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        1. Jonatan Pallesen‏ @jonatanpallesen 4 Jun 2017
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          I second this. Preferably in non-Twitter form. Perhaps you can end up agreeing on what type of studies could settle the matter.

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          I'd pay for the drinks.

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