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Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?
Dene Bebbington (dene@bebbo.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 3 Nov 1996 17:52:31 +0000
"Duncan R. MacMillan" <Duncan@drmac.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <55acgq$aqj@pelican.unf.edu> rkephart@osprey.unf.edu "Ron
>Kephart" writes:
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>> This is an extremely important point and one which I hope the people
>> following this thread will think carefully about. If within group
>> variation is greater than between group then there is SOMETHING WRONG
>> WITH THE WAY THE "GROUPS" ARE CONSTRUCTED.
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> For any one attribute, the variation within groups will be greater
>than that within, but group identity is assigned on the overall "score" of
>multiple attributes.
> I get the impression that a lot of people who rubbish "The Bell Curve"
>seem to think that IQ was used to assign the subjects to their racial groups,
>instead of the other way round.
The problem with "The Bell Curve" is that the authors used the IQ
results of self-selected racial groups to hypothesise about possible
genetic explanations. But they provide no compelling reason why self-
selected groups provide a coherent and meaningful biological group by
which genetic differences may be invoked to explain IQ differences.
--
Dene Bebbington
"... after all, who'd notice another madman around here?!"
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