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The bell curve is a scabrous piece of racial pornography. https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/26/opinion

• zozbot234 5y ago
  To be clear, I do of course agree that the book had plenty of major flaws, including in its statistical arguments about the importance of "I.Q." specifically (or of some entirely hypothetical "general factor", whatever that might mean - a "factor" being merely a way of summarizing correlations across measurements, as opposed to anything causally relevant in any underlying model) to outcomes, and even about its observed distribution across US conventional race groups. Much of it would not stand up to even the lightest scrutiny nowadays. But its more general argument about the emergence of a "cognitive elite" on one side, and a "custodial state" on the other, might as well be called conventional wisdom today. These simply were not commonly-acknowledged facts in the mid-1990s!
• whatlolasdqwe 5y ago