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Too bad she was wrong (which is not a surprise when you read OP's description of her ludicrous research - so you criticize direct measurements of brain volume a
by gwern 8y ago
Too bad she was wrong (which is not a surprise when you read OP's description of her ludicrous research - so you criticize direct measurements of brain volume as biased and offer as a replacement... some facial measurements, of range-restricted unrepresentative samples, by someone with her own axe to grind in a statistically-meaningless stunt? wow) and her debunking has been debunked. We have enormous brain imaging datasets now and the connection between human brain size and and intelligence is borne out in every sample and is real: most recently https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Gideon-et-al.-2018.pdf https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Gid... (not to mention the more obvious between-species correlations and other within-species correlations, most notably recently in dogs: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-018-01234-1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-018-01234-1 ).