Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?

Lorne Beaton (beaton1@uwindsor.ca)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:28:30 GMT

In article <3285741B.3C9C@conterra.com>,
Bob Whitaker <bwhit@conterra.com> wrote:
>
> That's all Politically Correct, but has nothing to do with the facts.

A statement can be perfectly Politically Correct and still be true. If
your worst enemy said the sky was blue, would you insist it was green
just to spite him?

> Intelligence is so obvious that even some idiot psychologist has to
>be able to find it. higher IQ's correlate with better health, height,
>and about everything else.
> My brother, a neurologist, found a very practical use for this. You
>can find the shortest two percent of a group of children of a given
>age, and half of them ar in the lowest two percent of IQ.

This sounds plausible, albeit anecdotal. If someone undertook an empirical
study of those children, would they also find that low IQ and shortness
also correlate with, say, malnutrition or early childhood illness? What
does any of this have to do with race?

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