tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post6282301239698730010..comments2024-03-24T21:25:13.059-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Are attitudes changing on IQ and race?Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-47834165834407700552008-05-27T23:27:00.000-07:002008-05-27T23:27:00.000-07:00Only 2.8% of Americans with graduate degrees agree...<I>Only 2.8% of Americans with graduate degrees agree with the genetic idea, while 20.2% of high school dropouts do.</I><BR/><BR/>Speaking as someone with a graduate degree, I suspect that many people with low measured IQs are pretending to be dumb. (If something is easy for us, it might be easy for everybody else.)<BR/><BR/>This reaction may be common.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-25398977914350174022008-05-27T12:34:00.000-07:002008-05-27T12:34:00.000-07:00"Rejecting the blank slate theory of human nature ..."Rejecting the blank slate theory of human nature does not mean (in my view) accepting that we have any scientific knowledge about the race-genes-IQ connection."<BR/><BR/>Then what do we have then? We have plenty of knowledge that genes determine skin color, eye color, hair color, even certain diseases, but not intelligence? I'm sorry, but you should know better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-81749782611780863262008-05-25T06:36:00.000-07:002008-05-25T06:36:00.000-07:00Ron:Thanks for the great post - better data beats ...Ron:<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the great post - better data beats better algorithms, as they say.<BR/><BR/>I tried to be quite specific about what I meant by the "winning" comment. Here's what I said in the post:<BR/><BR/>"You think you’re losing this debate, but you’re obviously winning it. (“you” defined broadly, and “winning” defined as accepting an inherent human nature along with subsidiary propositions I list in the second quote below)"<BR/><BR/>Rejecting the blank slate theory of human nature does not mean (in my view) accepting that we have any scientific knowlegde about the race-genes-IQ connection.<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/>Jim ManziAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-43333874480979193842008-05-25T02:11:00.000-07:002008-05-25T02:11:00.000-07:00Your first graph is useless. It gives the percenta...Your first graph is useless. It gives the percentages, but it doesn't say what you are measuring. You just have "..." at the bottom of all of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com