(03-09-2017, 10:56 AM)Odin Wrote: I wasn't justifying the rioting, that was wrong, but at the same time the college had no obligation to let him speak on their grounds.
IIRC the reason *The Bell Curve* caused such outrage is because it completely ignored systemic racism in favor of the Right's favorite talking points, indicating that Murray is a propagandist hack, never mind the the common opinion that outright rejects IQ as a valid measure of intelligence and the concept of intelligence being a singular g factor.
Did you read Bell Curve Odin? Did you Some Guy? I did.
The error Murray made was subtle. He assumed that IQ correlates with the general perception of intelligence for humans as a whole. It's a perfectly reasonable assumption, its just quite obviously wrong empirically. Because of the taboo on this topic, nobody studies this. The reason for this, I believe is not political correctness, but rather class-based.
