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Read it. Learn history. Learn how sociology works. Nah don’t bother. It’s HN.
by foolrush 6y ago
Read it. Learn history. Learn how sociology works.
Nah don’t bother. It’s HN.
- afiori 6y agoI would say that this was not the purpose of the link. A comment said "X is something studied scientifically" with X = IQ, and the reply was the same as proposing also X = eugenics. It did not look particularly constuctive.
- JamesBarney 6y agoI read it, and besides one paragraph (which presents a straw man) it has nothing to do with whether IQ is a psuedoscientific swindle and everything to do with whether eugenicists used IQ.
- foolrush 6y agoSure you did buddy. Sure you did. The whole idea of the SAT was an expansive control of capital when the USA grew too large for word-of-mouth recommendation systems. But you knew that too right? You also knew that it was basically designed to keep undesirables out of the capital class too, right? Guess who those people were.
- JamesBarney 6y agoClearly this argument is spiraling away from the original premise of whether IQ pseudoscientific into what feels like a flamewar. There are a couple of HN guidelines that try to keep that from happening that I think would have helped prevent this. > Be kind. Don't be snarky. > Please don't post shallow dismissals > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article
- foolrush 6y agoScience is political. Get over yourself.