Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 30 2020 12:57pm)
So if you conduct IQ testing through the most neutral and unbiased means on large scale with double blind studies using repeatable laboratory methods and explore it so definitively and exhaustively that the conclusions are beyond all doubt, and the conclusion is that races have stratified IQ distributions along offset bell curves with some on average dumber than the others based on race- does that make science a form of dark white supremacist wizardy that needs to be purged from our midst?
Come now, The Bell Curve and Mainstream Science on Intelligence were published 26 years ago. We've already had a half dozen threads on PARD about this very subject. The controversy over these well evidenced facts is older and staler than some posters in this thread.
I've absolutely shredded you on this every time.
The tests you're describing haven't been done in an unbiased way and reported on the way you think they have. Let me give you an example.
The Bell Curve cites a paper in which they went to a factory in Zimbabwe (I think, it was in Africa) and gave every worker a specialized math test. Then 6 months later, they went back and gave them the same kind of test and noted that the scores improved despite the workers not remembering the contents of the test when questioned, and having not studied any relevant material in the mean time.
The Bell Curve took the first (lower) test, attempted to correlate the test to IQ (which you cannot do), and then took those results as representative of the whole country.
The Bell Curve is pseudo-science. It was not peer reviewed. It relies on garbage methodology. It's been debunked dozens of times and is not accepted in modern psychometrics as any kind of authoritative source.
When you dig into those "unbiased IQ tests" you are referencing, they are not unbiased and a decent amount of time they aren't even IQ tests, they're poor extrapolations from other data.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Sep 30 2020 12:04pm