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|be predicted by biological measurements like reaction time and brain MRIs.
give me a sauce that shows it's more than a correlation
|I read Gould's book "The Mismeasure of Man"
good for you. i don't give a shit about Gould personally. funny you should quote from a 27 year old book to try to disprove me.
|Oh boy, is that some Irreducible Complexity that I see?
I think Irreducible Complexity is somewhat valid for something like the human thought process. when it was first proposed, g was just some minor theory that tried to show why some people do better in school than others. somehow it got inflated into mythical proportions, to become the major uncharted mass of human intelligence which IQ tests seek to chart. and you claim to speak with authority on this?
|So do you deny race because of its implications in g differences among races, that you find unthinkable and horrible, since this is what seems to be upsetting you?
I'm a liberal and I don't deny race. In fact, I will guarentee you that different races have different genes, which cause a wide variety of differences in people. I'm mostly just bothered by psychology, which is and will likely remain in the realm of statistical bullshit. Psychology is to hard science as stamp collecting is to hard science. It's little more than a endless limp wristed collection of statistics that shows correlations, but not causation. That hasn't stopped scores of you blue-blooded faggots from trying though.
g is a true construct, and you can appeal to its existence all you want. But as of today, you can't satisfactory answer to major aberrations such as the Flynn Effect and unless you're willing to kidnap a bunch of women, place them in a control, kidnap their babies, raise them on an island, educate them in a uniform way and give them IQ tests, you'll be stuck in an endless nature vs. nurture debate.
Until you admit that, I'll just assume you another loser social scientist stuck in the academic bubble who didn't have what it took to get into med school.
Why don't you whine some more faggot?