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Re: The Bell Curve (was: Suppression of Sociobiology)
Robert Snower (rs222@worldnet.att.net)
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:35:44 GMT
rcarlsen@macconnect.com (Robert S. Carlsen) wrote:
>The race/i.q. part of the Bell Curve has 3 premises:
> 1). There exists a precise intelectual component g that can be
>measured w/o bias. (It is therefore capable of ranking people
>in linear order)
> 2). That component is genetically based and largely immutable
> 3). It correlates with race.
>Quite simply, if any of these three premises are flawed, the entire
>race/i.q. argument falls apart. As the articles cited above demonstrate,
>all three of these premises are highly suspect and probably entirely
>invalid.
The book fails to mention a fourth premise, I believe (I haven't read
the book), which is absolutely true, and is much more relevant to the
world we live in than any of these three: the fellow sitting next to
you might be smarter than you, regardless of his/her race, color, or
creed.
Best wishes. rs
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