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by moldbug 15y ago
No one in this thread has claimed this. Stop trying to invent a polemic. Note that this comment was posted before raganwald wrote "and possibly deliberately so," above. So it's not as obtuse as it looks.
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by moldbug 15y ago
You're really doing Professor Hawks a disservice by imagining him as some kind of foul right-wing agitator. He's actually bending over backward to be fair. Here's how a slightly more partisan biologist (Peter Frost) responds to the same ma
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by moldbug 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption_...
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by moldbug 15y ago
Apparently fascist is even worse! You know what - if someone, anyone, can tell me why it's absolutely necessary to persecute racists and fascists, yet utterly and completely wrong to persecute communists, I'll go whole hog and buy the R-wor
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by moldbug 15y ago
This is kind of a weird explanation of g . What g really means is that you can't design a meaningful intelligence test that doesn't correlate with all the other intelligence tests - with slightly divergent axes for verbal and spatial/mat
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by moldbug 15y ago
Don't be too optimistic: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/us/21latina.html As I said, the confounding factors exist, but they seem relatively minor. Attempting to effectively homogenize the diverse human gene pool through education is a
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by moldbug 15y ago
* Another example I read about is how different cultures see the drawing of a box (a 3d wireframe). Apparently in western cultures people would see it as a drawing of a 3d box, whereas some poor test takers in Africa just saw a 2d drawing.
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by moldbug 15y ago
Because we all know how pervasive anti-Arab, anti-black, etc, stereotypes are in "pop culture and media." As is well known, Hollywood is full of corporate racist fascist pigs. Which is why we see so many films promoting racism and fascism.
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by moldbug 15y ago
Or a fascist, possibly? Which is worse - a racist, or a fascist? Discuss. I'll give you my standard deal - I'll admit to being a fascist, if you'll admit to being a communist. I haven't gotten any takers yet but I'm looking forward to th
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by moldbug 15y ago
Think like a smart person - you obviously are one. If you wanted to confirm or deny this "old trope," how would you do so? What evidence would prove or disprove it? If you wanted to identify such privileges, what would they look like? Wh
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by moldbug 15y ago
Job interviews aren't for the purpose of predicting future achievement? Say again? there's a lot of ugly historical baggage where science has met race in the past. There is indeed: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/meta/gould-morton-le
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by moldbug 15y ago
which it's not Jesus. Do we live in the same reality? http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/07/how_divers... TL;DR: The Espenshade study found that African chromosomes (by the "one-drop rule") equaled 450 SAT points over Asian
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by moldbug 15y ago
I wasn't responding to the original story, but to a comment which I felt made unfair and scurrilous accusations about scientists of the past whom I respect. It's true that these charges are conventional in our society. Most people would let
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by moldbug 15y ago
It is legal (at least based on the guidelines provided by the US Department of Labor: http://www.onetcenter.org/dl_files/empTestAsse.pdf ) to give people all kinds of tests as long as (a) they do not select against certain protected tradi
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by moldbug 15y ago
True enough. But I'd say this is an even worse outcome than feeling like a fraud.
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by moldbug 15y ago
Why doesn't it "look good?" Oh, noes - am I a witch? Could you, as an engineer, design a better system to make sure that all Eskimos are "likely" incompetent at their jobs, than promoting Eskimos over Tamils just because they are Eskimos a
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by moldbug 15y ago
"Set up in such a way as to" is a deliberately ambiguous construction. It allows the reader to believe that there is, or is not, a conspiracy. If I say, "Harvard admissions are set up in such a way as to admit large numbers of Jews," someo
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by moldbug 15y ago
"Were found." Passive voice. Following the link, we discover that the "finder" is Judge Robert Peckham in 1979: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/17/us/robert-f-peckham-72-inf... No offense, but who the fsck is Bob Peckham? And why should
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by moldbug 15y ago
That's because in the past, the IQ tests were not fair, objective and colour-blind, but were set up in such a way as to bias against poorer people (which will be mostly black in the USA). Is this a conspiracy theory? It sounds a lot like
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by moldbug 15y ago
Note also that the methods of 60 years ago (a) discovered Gwen's ability, (b) promoted her to a commensurate position, (c) gave a productive citizen a genuine sense of achievement and accomplishment. All in a period which was universally r
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Serious professional reads the Trayvon police reports(crayfisher.wordpress.com)
5 points by moldbug 15y ago|0 comments
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by moldbug 15y ago
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks#.22S...
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UK student gets two months in jail for a tweet(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
8 points by moldbug 15y ago|0 comments
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by moldbug 15y ago
You mean "the Americans" and "American" respectively. Here's a somewhat hagiographic but generally accurate work on the American origin of all present "European" institutions: http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Century-Generations-Extraordi...
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by moldbug 15y ago
Some had probably read Filmer, who knew more about political science than "the rest of modern political science:" http://www.constitution.org/eng/patriarcha.htm Unfortunately, Filmer was not PC in 1770s Massachusetts. Probably even the V
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by moldbug 15y ago
How do you feel about the East German medical system? Could you design other things that way ? The current American system is not an example of free-market medicine, it's a strawman of free-market medicine. It's pretty hard to have a fre
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by moldbug 15y ago
I had to double-check if this was some kind of parody site. It's always a lot easier to sound like the voice of reason when you're winning. Defeat, especially unexpected defeat, brings out the inner crazy even in the most reasonable. But
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by moldbug 15y ago
It's well worth reading patent courtesan Gene Quinn as his head explodes: How long will it take the Federal Circuit to overrule this inexplicable nonsense? The novice reader may find that question to be ignorant, since the Supreme Court i
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by moldbug 15y ago
If the US government ran the scientific community, that community would not have its strong consensus on climate change, because half of congress, and every other president, is committed to at least equivocating on whether that consensus e
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by moldbug 15y ago
It's not a conspiracy. It's simply a bureaucracy. Don't be looking for conspiracy theories. Be looking for bureaucracy theories. I know this bureaucracy - my mother worked for it. (To be exact, she worked for Joe Romm at DOE.) Your visi

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