Legal Commentary

Near "Infinitely Alterable" Intelligence

By Big Tent Democrat

Bell Curve Sully:

[I]ntelligence is not infinitely alterable. My point was that growing inequality will be very, very hard to prevent or restrain in the face of these factors.

What factors? The fact "IQ" (No, IQ does not accurately measure intelligence, which is impossible to define anyway) is significantly alterable, but not "infinitely alterable? Really?

More . . .

Sully refers to a Nick Kristof column that states "this view of I.Q. as overwhelmingly inherited . . . is, at a practical level, profoundly wrong. . . . Eric Turkheimer of the University of Virginia has conducted further research demonstrating that in poor and chaotic households, I.Q. is minimally the result of genetics — because everybody is held back. “Bad environments suppress children’s I.Q.’s,” Professor Turkheimer said."

Sully pretends that Kristof supports his retrograde Bell Curve views. The new research cited by Kristof in fact demolishes his views. Sully seems incapable of seeing that he has been pimping pseudo science racism. And for that, he remains to me Bell Curve Sully (not to mention Fifth Column Sully.)

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).