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Œuvres de Richard Lynn

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Lynn, Richard
Date de naissance
1930-02-20
Sexe
male
Nationalité
England, United Kingdom
Lieu de naissance
Hampstead, England, UK

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Only a 4 because most of the text is a dry, technical laying out of evidence supporting the thesis--primarily that there is an adult male IQ advantage over females of 4 points, and thus that the very common claim that there is no difference in general intelligence between the sexes is false.
 
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Duffyevsky | Aug 19, 2022 |
Richard Lynn is a courageous scientist, unafraid to let the chips fall where they may. Truth beats wishful thinking and propaganda every time. He provides in this book the most comprehensive data set seen so far on an important question: do races differ on average in their intelligence? His answer is delivered with a review of studies from around the world, a plethora of data, and a cool head. It comes with dozens of tables drawn from about 500 peer reviewed, published studies from the scientific literature. It has over 50 pages of references. It is overwhelming.

Besides the tables, it has a worthwhile discussion of "race denial" among certain (mostly) American academics, and the usage of unhelpful euphemisms for race, such as "geographic groups" and "clusters" used by such as Cavalli-Sforza. I had to agree with him.

However, I am not sure that his explanations of the data (ice-age challenging environment) are anything more than plausible. They are certainly incomplete. His discussion of nutritional effects, so often proposed to explain the data, was clear and devastating, I thought. But, on the other hand, I wish he had included some discussion of the other moments of the distributions among different races. Surely there is some data on this. Averages are very important, but so is the variance, and skewness too.

This is an important book. It brings the data into sharp relief, and should be read by all race deniers. Some might even be cured.
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DonSiano | Oct 19, 2006 |

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Œuvres
19
Membres
159
Popularité
#132,375
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
2
ISBN
36

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