Comments on: DNA Pioneer’s Astonishing Rant http://brainblogger.com/2007/11/02/dna-pioneers-astonishing-rant/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ian Kemmish http://brainblogger.com/2007/11/02/dna-pioneers-astonishing-rant/#comment-69438 Ian Kemmish Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:06:54 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2007/11/02/dna-pioneers-astonishing-rant/#comment-69438 When I was young, "everybody knew" that men were more intelligent than women, and school and university exam results proved it. (Indeed when my college at Cambridge opened up to female undergraduates, they reportedly couldn't find enough who had passed the entrance exam.) Now, "everybody knows" that the opposite it true, and school and university results prove that too. Prof Watson's error - of reducing measures of intelligence to a single figure or merit - is one which everyone makes and - crucially - nearly everyone is comfortable with. So long as they think they're not talking about race. When I was young, “everybody knew” that men were more intelligent than women, and school and university exam results proved it. (Indeed when my college at Cambridge opened up to female undergraduates, they reportedly couldn’t find enough who had passed the entrance exam.) Now, “everybody knows” that the opposite it true, and school and university results prove that too.

Prof Watson’s error - of reducing measures of intelligence to a single figure or merit - is one which everyone makes and - crucially - nearly everyone is comfortable with. So long as they think they’re not talking about race.

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