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I think it's failing to articulate a correct position, you shouldn't assume wokeness is the only reason people argue against racial IQ studies. There are studie
by dataangel 3y ago
I think it's failing to articulate a correct position, you shouldn't assume wokeness is the only reason people argue against racial IQ studies. There are studies reporting a standard deviation, but there are a lot of problems with existing studies even if you agree with the idea of IQ generally (which is also highly contested). One of the biggest IQ studies for African countries relied on IQ measurements from people who didn't even live there. There's also a big reliance on twin studies to prove IQ heritability, but it turns out a lot of these "raised apart" twins lived extremely close together, in some cases literally next door. And a lot of the researchers refuse to disclose their actual data so people can verify the statistics, while at the same time getting their funding from known supremacist sources. It's very very very dubious, and the people proclaiming that it's "uncontested" or "very well accepted in psychology" use half truths to prop up their position, e.g. it's well accepted for its original purpose of distinguishing people with brain damage to those without, in other words its accurate for making distinctions at the very bottom of the distribution, but at the upper end all the correlations people use to argue IQ is a legitimate measure break down, e.g. higher IQ starts to correlate with less income. If you genuinely want to learn more about this you can find lots of sources and analysis here: https://twitter.com/DialecticBio https://twitter.com/DialecticBio
- whimsicalism 3y agoThe critique of the 'raised apart' twin study as 'they were not as far apart as you think' is not actually that strong given that the results replicate, they still exist when eliminate these populations, the effect size is way too large to be explained by some 'raised apart' twins living close together. The better critique is that a lot of what you are actually measuring is maternal womb conditions, ie. placental sharing, which can have a massive impact. The jump from within-family twin study to interracial genetic IQ difference is also not a well-justified one.
- sanxiyn 3y agoI mean, evolution is also "highly contested". Controversy surrounding "the idea of IQ" is as interesting as those around evolution, in other words, not at all. Scientifically, it is a closed case. Being highly contested is no excuse for Bard to spread misinformation.