Re: BELL CURVE CRITIC EXPOSED?
J Lopez (jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu)
9 Feb 1995 07:15:21 GMT
edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil) wrote:
]
] In article <3h7esd$f61@ousrvr.oulu.fi>, mplauron@paju.oulu.fi
] (Mika-Petri Lauronen) writes:
]
] >In practice it means that if some members of
] >a "white" race settled down in a sunny area, after many generations they
] >would be black.
] >
] >Which, according to the Bell Curve, would mean their intelligence has
] >gone down.
]
] _The Bell Curve_ says no such thing. Did you read it?
Mika-Petri may have. The above misinterpretation is not merely due
to not having read the book. Even people who never read the book
and only heard a summary would not reasonably draw the above
inference. It is not the product of an honest misunderstanding.
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