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Satoshi Kanazawa is not an intellectual I respect very much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa > vi
by RodericDay 11y ago
Satoshi Kanazawa is not an intellectual I respect very much
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa
> views such as that African countries suffer chronic poverty and illness because their people have lower IQs and that black women are objectively less attractive than other races
> a group of 68 evolutionary psychologists issued an open letter titled "Kanazawa's bad science does not represent evolutionary psychology",[6] and an article was published by 35 on the same theme.[7]
- miracle_code 11y agoMissing infrastructure for education due to hundreds of years of colonial exploitation and wars fought would be the obvious answer here. But hey, Hakuna matata! Disney told me so. /s
- ryw90 11y agoI find it hard to take his work seriously. Here are detailed criticisms of some of his other papers: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kanazawa.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kana...