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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Andrew Sullivan's Bogus Interest in Genetics, Part LXVI and Ongoing

Smarter and dumber. The more you analyze this subject, the more complex and interesting it becomes. -AS


Any more than any other scientific study? I just don't see it.

What's more, the more I read on the topic, the less impressed I am by those writing it:

  • He seems to draw no distinction or to skip undiciplined between "g", and "IQ" measures of learning and capacity.
  • Does his explanation of the Flynn effect seem a statistical indictment of "g"? It does to me.
  • Flynn could have easily put in a table showing the sub-tests and their contribution(s) to the trends, but chooses not to.