I was going to review Carleton S. Coon’s Origin of Races, but it’s highly technical and I didn’t think my readers wanted another review on the theory of human origins. Instead, I’ll share some racial differences between populations that he noted. Due to what political correctness has done to scholarship, on some topics the best sources are still 50-100 years old. [...]
I previously wrote about a paper by Wicherts et. al that claimed that Lynn and Vanhanen found a sub-Saharan African IQ of 70 by ignoring tests on which Africans did much better. I sent Richard Lynn the following E-Mail
Rushton sent me the part of his and Jensen’s upcoming article that deals with African IQ, which [...]
Bones, Stones and Molecules: “Out of Africa” and Human Origins
By. David W. Cameron and Colin P. Groves
402 pp. Elsevier Press 2004
We’re told that paleoanthropological and genetic data say that modern man has a recent African origin. How much of this is based on serious science and how much of it is media [...]
I had the following exchange with Richard Nisbett during my interview with him
You cite Turkenheimer’s study that said that for lower class children heritability of intelligence was .10. According to Jensen and Rushton that particular study was an aberration. (18-19) In fact, a British study looking at 2,000 children showed the opposite, with the intelligence of [...]
I have an article up at Ian Jobling’s website White America. I review the book Silent Racism, which centers around groups of liberal white women who have conversations about their own hidden biases and their attempts to overcome them.
In 2007, public outrage greeted a mandatory freshman diversity training program at the University of Delaware. The [...]
Paul Gottfried is a professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College. He’s written a number of books on the American conservative movement, the history of political thought and what he calls the managerial state in addition to countless articles in English, French, German and Italian. I reviewed Gottfried’s Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt here. I [...]
Richard Nisbett is a social psychology professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His PhD is from Columbia University. He’s the author of numerous books, including The Geography of Thought, which I reviewed here. His most recent work is Intelligence and How To Get It, in which he argues for the importance of [...]
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