Race, IQ and Jensen
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Read on Hacker News…s on Jensen and others holding up Flynn as the poster boy (see at the end). Flynn has not done anything to dispel that. He even wrote a book attacking Jensen indirectly (Race, IQ and Jensen). Here is a quote: > However, the last stand of the racist is not without importance, something I will attempt to demonstrate by giving a racist ideologue his say. Scientists should search for truth – with not prior preconceptions or beliefs (i.e. he should search for truth and not just justification). Here is an example of some Jensen attacks: “Resurrecting Racism: The modern attack on black people using phony science” (by the popular anthropologist Francisco Gil-White): You can read chapter 6 here : http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrchap6.htm I will not quote it since the whole chapter is full of Jensen attacks. The extremely popular “The Mismeasure of Man…
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