Comments on: Missing the Boat: NPR & the Pioneer Fund

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:23:49 +0000

“I believe we are undergoing a revivalism of social darwinistic beliefs eg: the “brights” is just the use of might over the vulnerable”

In other words a meritocracy where those who do well academically end up being engineers, doctors and Wall Street Bankers?

That has been the case for quite a while. What’s your proposed alternative?

By: Jan Sam

Jan Sam — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:57:58 +0000

The conservative element has always used fudging as one of the main tools of data collection. Brutality is also popular.

see complaints board via subscriptions type in Samdra Sandoski for submissions.

I believe we are undergoing a revivalism of social darwinistic beliefs eg: the “brights” is just the use of might over the vulnerable

By: Chun

Chun — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:10:38 +0000

He has considerably more credibility than people who misrepresent his views and indulge in ad hominem attacks rather than engaging in open discussion.

There is a well documented difference of 2/3 of a std deviation between Ashkenazi Jews and other whites on psychometric tests. East Asians (those of Chinese, Japanese, Korean ancestry) average slightly above the white mean.

These differences show up in East Asian adoptees raised in white households, and also on reaction time tests which correlate strongly with psychometric measures. Similarly, there are average differences in brain volume as measured on MRI.

These differences are most likely the result of divergent evolutionary paths (approx 50,000 years). It is also well documented that there are group differences in maturation rates between groups – Rushton’s ‘rule of three’ seems to hold up pretty well (that is any important difference (be it physical, mental, developmental, temperamental,or behavioral) that can be found between Asians and Europeans, a similar relationship will most likely be found between Europeans and Africans. Regardless of the correctness of Rushton’s theory for explaining this consistent relationship it appears replicable.

By: Paul de Souza

Paul de Souza — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:38:19 +0000

You have to be a bit desperate to think Rushton has any credibility whatoever when clearly, he used data that included Female skulls for the African group of Cranial measurements. He used data from tests performed 100years ago. Smaller female brains and short people are not educationally sub normal. In 1997, 19.4 percent of all adult African immigrants in the United States held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1 percent of adult whites and 3.8 percent of adult blacks in the United States, respectively. This information suggests that America has an equally large achievement gap between whites and African/Asian immigrants as it does between white and black Americans.

By: Jim Sachsen

Jim Sachsen — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:09:31 +0000

You guys have missed the boat.

“His findings: Blacks have larger genitals, breasts and buttocks — characteristics that Rushton alleges have an inverse relationship to brain size and, thus, intelligence.”

This implies that Rushton argues that there is a causal linkage between size of genitalia and IQ. He does no such thing.

Name calling won’t change the facts presented by Rushton. No wonder people of your ilk embrace investigation and prosecution by “hate speech” inquisitors.