Are differences in performance on standardized tests indicative of differences in intelligence? Are differences in intelligence, in turn, rooted in genetic difference? Are the genetic determinants of intelligence distributed in predictable patterns along racial lines? Finally, are race-based discrepancies in mean intelligence brute biological facts, impervious to social or technological efforts to alleviate them?What do you think?
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Friday, November 23, 2007
Slapping Saletan on Racist Theory of Intelligence
Daily Kos front page blogger Miss Laura links to an article called "No, Blacks are Not Dumber than Whites" which refutes Slate's Will Saletan's series called "Created Equal" by answering the following questions:
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