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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, could you perhaps elaborate a bit on the racist history of the bell curve? I'm well aware of the racist history of IQ, but I don't even have an inkling of what that's referring to in the context of the bell curve. It's just the graph of a normal distribution, is this referring to some weird application of it to some racist shit?

PS: I know you've attached a video with info on it and me asking might be kinda dumb. However, I saw it's 2+hrs and I don't have the time to watch it right now but I'm still interested.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel that my comment was a little ambiguous.

The Bell Curve mentioned isn't the graph distribution, but rather the book by the same name that uses misrepresented data from IQ tests to push the idea that there is a genetic factor that makes black people inherently less intelligent than anyone else.

Sorry for any misunderstandings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

also, the video you linked is very good and well worth the time investment. for anyone who can’t watch the video, RW has a good article along the same lines