Quote (EndlessSky @ Sep 10 2017 02:05pm)
My bad. This is his big controversial paper. It got him expelled from Harvard
"Long-run convergence of ethnic skill differentials" is a good reference
http://delong.typepad.com/pdf-1.pdfAlrightey let's get started.
1. It's not a paper. It's a dissertation, which is a graduation requirement and does NOT go through peer review the way a paper does.
2. It didn't get him expelled. He states in interviews it "collected dust" until some journalist found it. You can see it was signed for acceptance by his committee.
3. He's a doctor of public policy, not psychology, which calls into question his expertise to discuss this subject matter. Not a debunking itself, but it needs to be treated with high scrutiny.
4. His signers are Christopher Jencks, who is a government professor at the university and doesn't have qualifications to review IQ, Richard Zeckhauser, an economist and doesn't have the qualifications to review the claims about IQ, and George Borjas, same as before.
None of these people are experts in any field of psychology. This is what I was talking about above when I say dissertations receive less scrutiny than published papers and can't be taken as strong claims until they're published in a journal.
Anyway, I'm not even in the meat of the paper yet and I've already identified several issues with claiming anything in here as fact.
Where is the claim of 85% genetic IQ?