Wednesday, May 29, 2013

L'Hote Contra Zach Beauchamp on the Richwine Affair

This is a much, much better piece than the Beauchamp piece. And, as it turns out, Beauchamp's glosses on the IQ research are misleading in several ways, as I was inclined to think.

I actually think this piece is a little too kind to Beauchamp IMO--I don't think the point about the nature of race is very good, to be honest. Race can be a vague and non-biological category and still be a category that social scientists can avail themselves of. But I'm not going to push that point.

(via Sullivan)

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thought you might find this article and the accompanying links an interesting read.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/race-intelligence-and-genetics-for-curious-dummies/276154/

Mark

6:35 PM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

Thanks Mark, that piece is weirdly reasonable...

7:15 PM  

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