https://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php?title=Chance_News_19&feed=atom&action=historyChance News 19 - Revision history2024-03-29T00:11:39ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0-alphahttps://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php?title=Chance_News_19&diff=13227&oldid=prevPaulAlper: /* Discussion */2006-08-07T21:02:14Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Discussion</span></span></p>
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</table>PaulAlperhttps://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php?title=Chance_News_19&diff=2963&oldid=prevJls at 15:56, 7 August 20062006-08-07T15:56:00Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A bit of history is helpful in challenging these assertions. In 1923, C.C. Brigham's book, ''A Study of American Intelligence'', analyzed mental tests given to 1.75 million recruits during World War I. He said, "The able Jew is popularly recognized not only because of his ability because he is able and a Jew" and "Our figures would rather tend to disprove the belief that the Jew is highly intelligent." The obvious nurture answer to the rapid rise in Jewish intelligence from World War I to the present is that the test conclusions were absurd inasmuch as the Jews were primarily recent immigrants and spoke little English. For a lengthy and incisive look at those famous mental tests and their ludicrous justifications, see ''The Mismeasure of Man'' by Stephen J. Gould.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A bit of history is helpful in challenging these assertions. In 1923, C.C. Brigham's book, ''A Study of American Intelligence'', analyzed mental tests given to 1.75 million recruits during World War I. He said, "The able Jew is popularly recognized not only because of his ability because he is able and a Jew" and "Our figures would rather tend to disprove the belief that the Jew is highly intelligent." The obvious nurture answer to the rapid rise in Jewish intelligence from World War I to the present is that the test conclusions were absurd inasmuch as the Jews were primarily recent immigrants and spoke little English. For a lengthy and incisive look at those famous mental tests and their ludicrous justifications, see ''The Mismeasure of Man'' by Stephen J. Gould.</div></td></tr>
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</table>PaulAlperhttps://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php?title=Chance_News_19&diff=2953&oldid=prevPaulAlper: /* The IQ of Ashkenazi Jews, Another Point of View */2006-08-05T17:32:20Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">The IQ of Ashkenazi Jews, Another Point of View</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A previous Chance News wiki, </del>[http://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_19#<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The_IQ_of_Ashkenazi_Jews, index.php/Chance_News_19#The_IQ_of_Ashkenazi_Jews </del>Chance News <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">19]</del>discussed among other things, evidence that Jews "have an advantage in average intelligence" and how this state of affairs may have come about via natural selection. This thesis belongs within the larger debate which has been going on for over a century: nature vs. nurture. Every so often, biological determinism is resurrected in order to advance a simplified chain of contentions: nature trumps nurture, heredity is destiny, the status quo is optimal, and social programs to aid those in need of help are doomed to failure.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The item</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A bit of history is helpful in challenging these assertions. In 1923, C.C. Brigham's book, ''A Study of American Intelligence'', analyzed mental tests given to 1.75 million recruits during World War I. He said, "The able Jew is popularly recognized not only because of his ability because he is able and a Jew" and "Our figures would rather tend to disprove the belief that the Jew is highly intelligent." The obvious nurture answer to the rapid rise in Jewish intelligence from World War I to the present is that the test conclusions were absurd inasmuch as the Jews were primarily recent immigrants and spoke little English. For a lengthy and incisive look at those famous mental tests and their ludicrous justifications, see ''The Mismeasure of Man'' by Stephen J. Gould.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A bit of history is helpful in challenging these assertions. In 1923, C.C. Brigham's book, ''A Study of American Intelligence'', analyzed mental tests given to 1.75 million recruits during World War I. He said, "The able Jew is popularly recognized not only because of his ability because he is able and a Jew" and "Our figures would rather tend to disprove the belief that the Jew is highly intelligent." The obvious nurture answer to the rapid rise in Jewish intelligence from World War I to the present is that the test conclusions were absurd inasmuch as the Jews were primarily recent immigrants and spoke little English. For a lengthy and incisive look at those famous mental tests and their ludicrous justifications, see ''The Mismeasure of Man'' by Stephen J. Gould.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> The wiki also mentioned Richard Lynn and his contributions to the debate. Lynn's explanation for the genetic superiority of the Jews is the fortunate side effect of "intermittent persecutions which the more intelligent may have been able to foresee and escape." In crude terms, a holocaust isn't entirely bad. There is little doubt that Lynn is a racist, certainly in the sense that he sees marked difference in intelligence according to pigmentation and between genders. Among other startling claims made by Lynn are that on average males are 4 points higher in IQ than females, the IQ of blacks in sub-Saharan Africa averages to 70, "the average IQ of blacks in the United States is approximately 85. The explanation for the higher IQ of American blacks is that they have about 25 per cent of Caucasian genes and a better environment." Even lower are Australian Aborigines, 62, and Pygmies, 54. In keeping with the most important principle of statistics, "follow the money," note that Lynn has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Pioneer Fund, an avowedly racist organization devoted to keeping Hispanics out of the United States. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For a scathing critique of Lynn's scholarship see </del>www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam1.htm <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which is </del>by Leon Kamin, a noted nurture advocate. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> The wiki also mentioned Richard Lynn and his contributions to the debate. Lynn's explanation for the genetic superiority of the Jews is the fortunate side effect of "intermittent persecutions which the more intelligent may have been able to foresee and escape." In crude terms, a holocaust isn't entirely bad. There is little doubt that Lynn is a racist, certainly in the sense that he sees marked difference in intelligence according to pigmentation and between genders. Among other startling claims made by Lynn are that on average males are 4 points higher in IQ than females, the IQ of blacks in sub-Saharan Africa averages to 70, "the average IQ of blacks in the United States is approximately 85. The explanation for the higher IQ of American blacks is that they have about 25 per cent of Caucasian genes and a better environment." Even lower are Australian Aborigines, 62, and Pygmies, 54. In keeping with the most important principle of statistics, "follow the money," note that Lynn has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Pioneer Fund, an avowedly racist organization devoted to keeping Hispanics out of the United States. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">You will find [http://</ins>www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam1.htm <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">here] a scathing</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A previous Chance News wiki, http://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_19#The_IQ_of_Ashkenazi_Jews, discussed among other things, evidence that Jews "have an advantage in average intelligence" and how this state of affairs may have come about via natural selection. This thesis belongs within the larger debate which has been going on for over a century: nature vs. nurture. Every so often, biological determinism is resurrected in order to advance a simplified chain of contentions: nature trumps nurture, heredity is destiny, the status quo is optimal, and social programs to aid those in need of help are doomed to failure.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A previous Chance News wiki, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[</ins>http://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_19#The_IQ_of_Ashkenazi_Jews, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">index.php/Chance_News_19#The_IQ_of_Ashkenazi_Jews Chance News 19]</ins>discussed among other things, evidence that Jews "have an advantage in average intelligence" and how this state of affairs may have come about via natural selection. This thesis belongs within the larger debate which has been going on for over a century: nature vs. nurture. Every so often, biological determinism is resurrected in order to advance a simplified chain of contentions: nature trumps nurture, heredity is destiny, the status quo is optimal, and social programs to aid those in need of help are doomed to failure.</div></td></tr>
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