>
> But let's say this classification is true with some
> modification. The modification would be that any
> specific individual of any race could have any of the
> guna characteristics delineated by Bob. I've met some
> very sattvic Black people and some very tamasic White
> people. So perhaps as a group measure what Bob says is
> true, but you will find that the within group
> differences are greater than the between group
> differences.
But consistent with your model, the mean (average) of each group would
be what Bob proposes -- clear and significant racial distinctions.
Four normal distributions (bell curves),overlapping, but the means
falling at discrete "racist" points, it still supports a model of
strong racial distinction (when genetics finds little support for race
types beyond the supperficial.).
There was a "popular" book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class
Structure in American Life" that suggested Intelligence and
Performance for each "race" were overlapping normal disdrubutions --
in the latter regard, similar to your model -- but the means were
quite distinctly different (as implied by your model.)
That book was heavily criticized and its data and methods refuted.
"In this volume, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of the
notorious The Bell Curve (Free Pr., 1994), are once again accused of
specious methodology in their rationalization of a ("hoodoo") social
science position that claims to validate an immutable genetic
connection among low achievement, poverty, violent crime affecting an
entire class of people (primarily African American), and I.Q. scores.
The 44 contributors span a broad range of affiliation and focus.
Similar to but more strident than those found in The Bell Curve Wars:
Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America (LJ 4/15/94), these
abundantly referenced essays criticize the validity of Herrnstein and
Murray's thesis for use of questionable assumptions, reliance on
racist scholars, rejection of contradictory evidence, and equation of
correlation with cause. Part a product of an increasingly conservative
society, part authors' bias, The Bell Curve is seen by the essayists
as a seriously flawed, dangerous rearticulation of white
supremacist/racist/class ideology. This thoughtful, readable anthology
is highly recommended for academics, policy makers, and the general
public."
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