> gg wrote:
> In the first of two opposing commentaries, Steven Rose argues that
> studies investigating possible links between race, gender and
> intelligence do no good.
>
Summary for lazy:
Ag'in' it:
In a society in which racism and sexism were absent, the questions
of whether whites or men are more or less intelligent than blacks or
women would not merely be meaningless they would not even be asked.
The problem is not that knowledge of such group intelligence
differences is too dangerous, but rather that there is no valid
knowledge to be found in this area at all. It's just ideology
masquerading as science.
For it:
There is an emerging consensus about racial and gender equality in
genetic determinants of intelligence; most researchers, including
ourselves, agree that genes do not explain between-group differences.
But some issues remain unresolved, such as identification of
mechanisms that bring genetic potential to fruition. Censuring
debaters favouring genetic explanations of intelligence differences is
not the answer to solving such mysteries.
As (en Francais) Monsieur Bigot (that's "bee-jo"), I prefer the second
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