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Scientists should never be censored
- emmett 19y agoBut that doesn't mean they should be able to say any foolish thing that wanders into their head.
- DocSavage 19y agoWatson has retired: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/25cnd-watson.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/25cnd-watson.html Watson's original statement seems like yet another attempt to take bell curves (of IQ vs race in this case) and treat them like delta functions. Reminds me of ability vs age arguments in some YC threads.
- falsestprophet 19y agoI don't think that anyone is about to confuse a bell curve with a delta function.
- DocSavage 19y agoThey do it everytime they make blanket statements like one race is more intelligent than another or people at 20 solve problems better than people at 50.
- amichail 19y agoMy solution to discrimination of this sort: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=69744 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=69744
- patrickg-zill 19y agoFirst, let this and other examples show that backing down from what you believe, won't save you or your position if you get embroiled in a controversy. So now he looks like a coward in addition to looking prejudiced. Second, there is no correlation between IQ and being morally upright, from my experience (and I doubt that there are many studies on it either). And what he was complaining about are the high rates of corruption in African governments, which is about morals, not IQ.
- cglee 19y ago"there is no correlation between IQ and being morally upright" That's why being smart isn't the most important attribute to look for in people.