I think it is because it is an empirical study based on the work of some one who believed that certain races and genetic profiles had lower IQ's
this from wikipedia *The Psychology of Politics* In this book, Eysenck suggests that political behavior may be analyzed in terms of two independent dimensions: the traditional left-right distinction, and how 'tenderminded' or 'toughminded' a person is. Eysenck suggests that the latter is a result of a person's introversion or extroversion respectively. Colleagues criticized the research that formed the basis of this book, on a number of grounds, including the following. - Eysenck claims that his findings can be applied to the British middle class as a whole, but the people in his sample were far younger and better educated than the British middle class as a whole. - Supporters of different parties were recruited in different ways: Communists were recruited through party branches, fascists in an unspecified manner, and supporters of other parties by giving copies of the questionnaire to his students and telling them to apply it to friends and acquaintances. - Scores were obtained by applying the same weight to groups of different sizes. For example the responses of 250 middle-class supporters of the Liberal Party were given the same weight as those of 27 working-class Liberals. - Scores were rounded without explanation, in directions that supported Eysenck's theories.[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-13> Genetics and intelligence By far the most acrimonious of the debates has been that over the role of genetics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics> in IQ<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ>differences, which led to Eysenck being punched on the nose by a female protestor during a talk at the London School of Economics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics> ,[14] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-14> as well as bomb threats, and threats to kill his young children.[15]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-15>This opposition came when he supported Arthur Jensen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jensen>'s questioning of whether variation in IQ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ> between racial groups<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28classification_of_human_beings%29>was entirely environmental. (see race and intelligence <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence>).[16]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-16> Eysenck thought the media gave the misleading impression that his views were those of a maverick outside the mainstream scientific consensus and cited The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IQ_Controversy,_the_Media_and_Public_Policy>as showing that there was majority support for every single one of the main contentions he had put forward, further asserting that the idea there was any real debate about the matter among the relevant scientists was incorrect.[17]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-Eysenck.2C_Hans_J._1990.2C_p._40-17> [18] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-18> In the context of this controversy, S.A. Barnett describes Eysenck as a "prolific popularizer" and exemplifies Eysenck's writings on this topic with two passages from his early 1970s books:[19]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-Barnett1989-19> All the evidence to date suggests the . . . overwhelming importance of genetic factors in producing the great variety of intellectual differences which we observe in our culture, and much of the difference observed between certain racial groups. —HJ Eysenck, *Race, Intelligence and Education*, 1971, London: Temple Smith, p. 130 the whole course of development of a child's intellectual capabilities is largely laid down genetically, and even extreme environmental changes . . . have little power to alter this development. —HJ Eysenck, *The Inequality of Man*, 1973, London: Temple Smith, pp. 111-12 Barnett quotes additional criticism of *Race, Intelligence and Education*from Sandra Scarr-Salapatek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Scarr>,[19]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-Barnett1989-19>who wrote in 1976 that Eysenck's book was "generally inflammatory" [20] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-20> and that there "is something in this book to insult almost everyone except WASPs and Jews."[21] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-21> Scarr was equally critical of Eysenck's hypotheses; one of which was Eysenck's supposition that slavery on plantations had selected African Americans as a less intelligent sub-sample of Africans.[22]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-Scarr1981-22>Scarr also criticized another statement of Eysenck on the alleged significantly lower IQs of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek immigrants in the US relative to the populations in their country of origin. "Although Eysenck is careful to say that these are not established facts (because no IQ tests were given to the immigrants or nonimmigrants in question?"[22]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-Scarr1981-22>Scarr writes that the careful reader would conclude that "Eysenck admits that scientific evidence to date does not permit a clear choice of the genetic-differences interpretation of black inferiority on intelligence tests," whereas a "quick reading of the book, however, is sure to leave the reader believing that scientific evidence today strongly supports the conclusion that US blacks are genetically inferior to whites in IQ."[22]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-Scarr1981-22> Some of Eysenck's later work was funded from the Pioneer Fund<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund>, an organization often criticized for allegedly promoting scientific racism<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism> ,[23] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-23>[24]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-24> [25] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-25>[26]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-26>for which Eysenck was also criticised. [27] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck#cite_note-27> tenderness would be a measure of compassion I am recruited for a study next week Transport & Health ... I get to carry around a gps as I travel around ... then they will have a survey more or less like the one above but measuring how happy and healthy I am compared to people who don't ride a bicycle for transport and recreation much more fun On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2013, at 7:37 AM, M Christol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm a eugenicist? > > > Radicalism 91.25 > Socialism 62.5 > Tenderness 53.125 > > I'm apparently a tender radical? and what is "tenderness" anyway? I'm good > slow-cooked with barbecue sauce? > > (obTwilight Zone: "IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!!") > > Mine includes this gem: > > "Your attitudes towards economics appear socialist, and combined with your > social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be > described as a political centrist. " > > "Socialist" == "Political centrist"? Are these people employees of Fox > News?? > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. 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