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==Adding the latest genetic research==
== Misplaced Pages is not a portrait gallery ==

I've removed some of the bewildering array of portraits. Strange to see such bloat, most I can recall anywhere on Misplaced Pages. Portraitpedia we are not.] (]) 13:32, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

:I thought that the portraits (almost all found/added by MathSci) were really good and interesting. Maybe add back half the ones you deleted? What do other editors think? ] (]) 13:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

::Yes, add them back, please. ] (]) 14:34, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
:::I have added them back. ] (]) 14:36, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
What is the encyclopedic purpose of a portrait gallery? Twenty-three images? Sixteen portraits? Not acceptable.] (]) 17:07, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

:If MathSci, Mikemikev and I agree on something (!?), then we are probably right. {{;)}} I say keep them. ] (])
::That's not a sufficient basis for inclusion. Please support your basis, I will be removing the portraits again - the onus is upon those arguing for inclusion. ] (]) 18:30, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
:::I'm not aware of any Misplaced Pages policy which forbids the inclsion of images to illustrate an article. What is frowned upon is an article composed uniquely of a picture gallery, unless you can cite an article of policy of which I'm unaware. I say leave the pictures in.--] (]) 19:24, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

::::The burden for inclusion lies with those who wish to add material. What is the encyclopedic value in 23 images, 16 portraits? Each one challenged should be supported. Supporting arguments should also be presented not only for each challenged image but for the body of 23 as a whole. 23 images is far beyond any encyclopedic need. ] (]) 01:21, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

::::: You wrote, "The burden for inclusion lies with those who wish to add material." Could you kindly source that statement to an official Misplaced Pages policy? -- ] (]) 04:49, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
::::::no problem, please look at ]. .19:17, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Twelve portraits removed as unsupported, individually and as a group, for inclusion in the article.] (]) 14:09, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

== Webster revert ==

Nothing more to say about Webster than my edit summary. This is what needs to be said. This article is not about Jensen. It is not a trial over what he "really" meant by what when. It is about the history of societal and academic controversies over race and intelligence. And how do you write an article about the controversy if you are going to pretend the key figures embroiled in it such as Arthur Jensen didn't provoke any controversy? It's not our role to resolve the controversy, we're here to describe it. So to review Jensen's part: Jensen's 1969 paper exploded in controversy-there were widespread protests, he became essentially an untouchable even in academia over it. Why? Come on! ''Why'' is because most people who read it thought it suggested blacks didn't do as well in school as whites because they inherited genes giving them significantly lower IQs than whites, and there's no way to raise it. It was interpreted to say their low IQs can't be raised through better education or improvements to their environment via social programs. That's why Jensen became an extremely provocative figure in race and intelligence controversy, why there were widespread protests against him, and why he became a something of a pariah. It's historic revisionism to pretend he wasn't criticized for this reason, or that this criticism was a completely manufactured hoax spread by fringy conspiracy kooks! That's what happened, right? So how is this article going to tell the story without including any of the key arguments traded in it? ] (]) 21:53, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

:Talking to myself, apparently, but take a look other articles at wikipedia such as these:
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:They include quotations representative of the "controversy" the article is addressing and any lack of "neutrality" is no barrier against them even when it's unflattering to a living person. OKAY? Gotta get this straight--''we'' have to be neutral in as accurately representing the controversy ''as it occurred''. It is not even permitted for us at wikipedia to create a whole different narrative of the controversy to make life ''more fair'' to the people who were involved in them. We don't change history, we don't "pretty" it up, we don't sensationalize it either. ] (]) 22:20, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

::When you reverted this, you said in your edit summary “there is no blp rule that all quoted sources are ‘NPOV’”. So it sounds like you’re acknowledging that a quote which refers to Jensen believing in “the inferior genetic attributes of blacks” is not taking an NPOV perspective about this. Right? And you also agree that neutrality is of primary importance in an article about a living figure, right?

::Other than the quote from the APA’s report ''Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns'', this quote from Webster is the longest quote in the entire article. It’s also one of the most strongly anti-Jensen quotes in the article, and is at odds with both what Jensen said in his own paper and the secondary sources that we’ve agreed are neutral such as Loehlin. Now, if our goal is to make the article as neutral as possible, are the views that we want to give the most space the ones that take the most strongly anti-Jensen view? Or should the views that we give the most space the ones that we agree are fairly neutral, such as Loehlin and the APA?

::That’s a rhetorical question. This is the reason why I reverted this addition to the article, and I suspect it’s why David.Kane reverted it also. If you want this quote to stay in the article, you’ll need to explain how it’s acceptable to give the most space to the sources that are the least neutral. --] (]) 22:30, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

:::This page has overstuffed with enough of this childishness already so don't put words in my mouth and grandstand with "rhetorical questions". There is no such rule, so don't ''use'' the nonexistent rule when reverting. Are we clear? I would also highly recommend you and David.Kane stop tag teaming. Are you acting as his spokesman here?
:::So now it's ]. Not ]. Inconveniently, there is no "revert on sight" provision in NPOV. So no there is no urgency to revert the content ''before'' discussing it. If you think there is undue balance for one side than the other, start a new section and propose how you think to improve it in terms of the overall scope discussing the 1969 paper, or all Jensen's work that relates. It can't be accomplished by arbitrarily and imperiously "vetoing" references and claims on an ] basis. ] (]) 23:41, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

::::If you actually read ], you’ll see that the rule I’m referring to is part of it. Specifically, it’s this: ''Do not give ] to particular viewpoints; the views of tiny minorities should not be included at all. Care must be taken with ] to ensure the overall presentation and section headings are broadly neutral.''

::::You asked why David.Kane and I had both reverted this material, so I’m explaining it. I’m only acting as a spokesman for myself, although I suspect that his reasons are similar to mine. Since the two sentences I quoted are part of ], and the rule for possible BLP violations is to revert on sight, everything I’ve done is an application of this policy.

::::I’ve explained why I think this material isn’t consistent with this portion of BLP policy. If you think it is, then it’s now your job to explain why that’s the case. If you can’t, then it’ll need to be removed. This is no different from every other possible BLP violation we’ve discussed here. --] (]) 00:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

:::::Yeah, well I have read it, many times, but thanks for the advice. Webster isn't fringe.. He's a sociologist, working right there in the thick of race and multicultural issues in society, written many books on it, and this particular book, as I said, has been cited many, many times. Fringe, at wikipedia, has very specific definition. Fringe, he's not. Nor is his opinion. It was shared by many, and that's why Jensen became such a lightening rod. ] (]) 00:50, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

::::::I wasn’t claiming that Webster is fringe. My point is merely that if we’re seeking to describe Jensen neutrally, and to not provide disproportionate space to any viewpoint about him, providing more space to one of his most vociferous critics than we do to any other perspective about him is not the way to do it.

::::::I actually don’t have a problem with Webster’s perspective about this being mentioned, but I think the current lengthy quote from him ought to be condensed into something that’s not longer than a sentence or so. Would you consider that an acceptable compromise? --] (]) 01:05, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

(ec) This doesn't in this case seem to be "the view of a tiny minority". A number of uninvolved academics from various parts of the social sciences gave their dispassionate readings of this article, which has been described as long, discursive and written in a hurry (Lee Cronbach explained why in 1975). Jensen's theory of Level I/Level II abilities (associative/cognitive) is described in numerous secondary sources and appears in the article. As many commentators write, Jensen points out that although blacks and whites perform equally well in Level I skills, blacks perform less well in Level II skills, which are the cognitive skills measured by IQ tests. Jensen suggests that it would be more reasonable to teach those with less aptitude in Level II skills, using primarily their Level I skills, i.e. by rote memorization rather than through learning abstract concepts. This is what almost all of the multiple sources so far have written. It is not a BLP violation, nor are those commenting a minority. They don't consitute a tightly formed group of conspirators. These are academic writers, often writing in a less speculative and more dispassionate way than Jensen himself. Several of the accounts occur in standard textbooks. The article of Jensen, as he himself remarked later in 1998, was not in any sense in a final state. It was speculative and he later changed his mind on several points. His academic reputation does not rest on this paper; it is on the other hand the historical document that, in a highly volatile politicalclimate of unrest and struggle, sparked a possibly disproprotionate reaction. That is made rather clear in the article (one reason the FBI picture is there, an FBI picture of the "weathermen" was the only choice because of WP copyright rules). In this case writers are assessing Jensen's article as a ''historical document''. Their readings are therefore extremely important to provide context for why it created an uproar. That of course is slightly ambiguous (as Cronbach relates) and that is reflected in the WP article. If Jensen's article, even in just a few places, contained reasoning which as it happened was construed in a negative way, whether that was intended or not, we cannot suggest to readers of the WP article that that interpretation has not been suggested. In the article the comments are ascribed to particular authors. ] (]) 01:21, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

:Before Professor marginalia paraphrases and shortens Webster's comments in the article, which of course I completely agree should be done, it would be helpful if Mikemikev and David.Kane could give some assurance that they would cease removing properly sourced material from the article. That would be a very positive step forward. Thanks, ] (]) 01:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

::I am happy to confirm that I will not revert correctly sourced and '''accurate''' material. For example, you added a quote from Jencks. Neither I nor anyone else removed it. Why would that be if your view --- that we remove all material critical of Jensen or describing his position --- were accurate? Why do you think we have not removed that quote? Simple: '''Jencks describes Jensen's views accurately, just as Loehlin et al do.''' Correct descriptions of Jensen's views will stay. ] requires us to remove and discuss (potentially) inaccurate descriptions. ] (]) 01:59, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

{{od}} Above, Professor Marginalia wrote:

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So to review Jensen's part: Jensen's 1969 paper exploded in controversy-there were widespread protests, he became essentially an untouchable even in academia over it. Why? Come on! ''Why'' is because most people who read it thought it suggested blacks didn't do as well in school as whites because they inherited genes giving them significantly lower IQs than whites, and there's no way to raise it. It was interpreted to say their low IQs can't be raised through better education or improvements to their environment via social programs. That's why Jensen became an extremely provocative figure in race and intelligence controversy, why there were widespread protests against him, and why he became a something of a pariah.
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'''I agree with all this!''' This is a reasonable summary of what happened. I think that the current article describes it well. I am not against adding more detail. (Although if the section devoted to Jensen (1969) gets any longer, we will need to break it off as its own article.) I simply insist on removing (and then discussing) material which, at first glance, is not accurate. '''The key issue seems to be claims from various folks that Jensen sought to treat all black children differently from all white children. He never wrote this.''' This is a much more extreme (and objectionable position) then his views on IQ differences and their genetic causes.

Professor Marginalia: In all honesty, I think that I have failed to make my position clear to you. I am in favor of detailed discussion of Jensen's views on IQ differences and their genetic cause. He really did write all those things. But ] requires that we only include accurate descriptions of his views. ] (]) 02:09, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

:::No wikipedian can judge whether something is a "correct version of Jensen's views" or an "accurate decription of his views". The article concerns a historical document, written in 1969. Commentators point out that Jensen changed his mind on parts of the paper subsequently. As far as the history is concerned, the WP article relies on what secondary sources say, not second-guessing by wikipedians. That is just ].

:::Captain Occam has said that he is happy with content in the segment from Webster. Is this also your view now? ] (]) 02:26, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
::::Only verifiable quotes from the subject himself are acceptable in such a controversal article about a living person. ] (]) 02:36, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:::::What you say doesn't seem to be correct. A not particularly complimentary quote from the biography by ] has been used in the article an ]. That is permissible. And that would apply to almost anything in the book, provided it was not ]. This is not a controversial article at all: it's a neutral article. The events in history might have been controversial, but that is an entirely different matter. The article is certainly not about just one person: it is a small part of of the ], which involves many people, several of whom like ] and ] are still living. ] (])

::::::I don't have much time to devote to this at the moment. But to XXanthippe, I don't know where you got that idea but it's not at all the BLP policy position. Nothing of the kind. And to David.Kane, I believe you're ''interpreting'' claims here as saying ''all black'' or ''all white'' when that wasn't what the claim said, or the secondary source said. Jensen didn't say they should be strictly segregated by race, but legitimized segregation was widely interpreted to be the outcome of such a recommendation given Jensen's own assertion that the average black has an IQ requiring a very different kind of education than the average white. In other words, the separate education would be the norm, not the exception? Get it? But this is what I've tried to explain many times--our job isn't to judge who did or didn't interpret Jensen's work properly. Our job is to accurately describe how these notable, published figures, academics, and other parties to the dispute did. We need to accurately describe how Jensen describes his own work. We need to accurately describe how his critics interpreted it. That's what we do. At no point do we nobodies at wikipedia step in to the fray and presume to judge the validity of ''those'' interpretations based on ''our own'' interpretation of the primary text itself. See? ] (]) 03:47, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
::::::::I agree with your last five sentences. The difficulty is that some people in this debate are not following their import. If this were a debate that had taken place in the nineteenth century, historians would have had time to absorb and assess all the evidence and all the participants would be dead. But this controversy is going on at present and most of the participants are very much alive. It is essential, on BLP grounds, that all the living participants are given fair treatment. Misplaced Pages must state explicitly what protagonists actually said as well as what cherry-picked commentators allege that they said. There are so many unreliable and biased secondary sources here that excruciating care must be taken to be fair. ] (]) 09:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC).

Xxanthippe wrote, "Only verifiable quotes from the subject himself are acceptable in such a controversal article about a living person." Not true. perhaps it would be better if this discussion were left to people who understand our BLP policy, or are willing to honor it. ] | ] 10:31, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

:Since Mathsci has agreed with me that it's reasonable to condense the Webster material, I've gone ahead and done that now. I've also included a passage from Flynn (1980) in order to help balance it. Mathsci has stated that he considers Flynn one of the leading authorities on psychometrics, so hopefully including his view about this won't be contentious either. --] (]) 11:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

::@Xxanthippe: Most of the episodes I've watched battled over here are decades old..Jensen, an octogenarian, is one of the few of the most notable participants reacting to his paper who is even still alive, and that debate is more than 50 years old now. I would like someone here to list out the supposedly "unreliable" and "biased" secondary sources allegedly filling the section, because what I've seen happen over and over and over again is the sources have been rejected out of hand by editors who didn't look at them, don't know anything about the qualifications of the author, but simply based on the editor's personal disagreement with the claim itself. In other words, the standard used here for calling a text "biased" or "unreliable" is not the authority, or lack of, to the published source. Instead, editors are judging the claim as "true" or not based on their own personal opinion of Jensen and pronouncing sources "biased" or "unreliable" if they don't conform to it. In other words, the inexpert wikipedian has appointed himself the judge of what's a "true" interpretation or conclusion to come to from a primary source. And that's completely backwards--in fact that's exactly what editors cannot do per ] and ]. ] (]) 16:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

== Shorter summaries of the 1969 paper of Jensen ==

This section is intended for summaries. We don't include unsourced synthesis nor do comment on the writer (eg words like "in a critical account"). That is ]. In the account of ] (from ]) he comments about the events of the 1969-1975. That is clearly of this section. It is to help readers understand how different academics in reliable secondary sources have interpreted Jensen's paper. Certainly it's not about whether Jensen's paper is correct or not. That people commented later on that is mentioned in the appropriate place in the article. These are straight summaries, not points of view on the correctness of Jensen's article. Thanks, ] (]) 11:53, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

:The quote from Flynn isn’t about whether Jensen is right or wrong; it’s only about whether Jensen should be taken seriously as a scientist.


How about adding it like this?
:Let me make sure I understand your point about this correctly. Is it that you don’t have a problem with the Flynn material in general, but just think it’s in the wrong part of the article? If that’s the only problem here, then it can be moved to wherever you think is an appropriate place.


In recent years scientists have found thousands of the SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) associated with educational attainment (a close proxy for IQ) in what are known as genome-wide association studies. Collectively, these SNPs account for about 10% of the variance in educational attainment in European populations.<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2014188</ref><ref>https://www.genomeweb.com/genetic-research/analysis-11m-people-ties-more-thousand-snps-educational-attainment</ref> The distribution of these genetic variants across races is consistent with the environmental explanation for observed racial differences in IQ scores.<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33529393/</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2019.1697803</ref>
:Incidentally, it might be worthwhile in general to cover the 1970s debate between Jensen and Flynn, because this debate is what defined most of the basic assumptions of the race and intelligence debate. (As well as leading to discoveries such as the Flynn Effect.) --] (]) 11:59, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
] (]) 17:07, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
::I agree that his Level - Level II theory was taken seriously by experts: the sentence about Flynn and Mckintosh should make that clear. We are giving authors' summaries of the articles, not their personal opinions or comments in the light of historical events. I did access a typed book or paper by Flynn where he discussed the Level I and Level II theories, but I'm not sure now that it was the 1980 book. I'd have to check that carefully. How did you access Flynn's 1980 book? ] (]) 12:34, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
{{reflist-talk}}
*{{noping|93.149.193.190}} was blocked for edit-warring on this article on 15 September 2021. As a result the article was semi-protected for one year by ]. There have been persistent copy-cat attempts by IPs from Milan to add to the lede variants of a proposed new paragraph (e.g. just above). None of these proposals have gained consensus from regular editors. Might it therefore not be a reasonable idea to semi-protect this talk page for a brief period (one month?), as EdJohnston previously suggested on ]? ] (]) 17:53, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
*:Yes I would agree with semi protection. When there are attempts to IP hop or repeatedly use different IPs to introduce the same content against consensus on the talk page, I think it is warranted for a short period. —&nbsp;] <sup>(]</sup> <sup>])</sup> 18:00, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
*::@] I would recommend ]. They may do nothing but it's at least worth a try... —&nbsp;] <sup>(]</sup> <sup>])</sup> 22:24, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
*:::'''Done.''' ] (]) 23:44, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
*::::Thanks to {{noping|El_C}} for responding to the semi-protection request and logging it so promptly. ] (]) 07:09, 3 October 2021 (UTC)


Whats wrong with that paragraph guys. I would have thought you would love it.
:::The sentence about Flynn and Mckintosh just says that they both gave accounts of Jensen’s research. It doesn’t make it clear how valuable Flynn considered Jensen’s contributions to psychometrics to be, including his research about race differences. It also doesn’t provide any information about the 1970s debate between Jensen and Flynn, which I think the article should cover.
] (]) 18:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
:As explained, this proposal is ]/], which is against Misplaced Pages policy. ] (]) 23:02, 2 October 2021 (UTC)


It is neither and you know it. Both articles are published in reputable scientific journals. The paragraph says exactly what the articles say. The only reason you do not want the content to be included is because, even though the article says they do not, the polygenic scores in fact DO support a genetic component to the gap. And you hate the idea that people might actually check and realise what these polygenic scores mean. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 21:41, 6 November 2021 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:::Flynn’s book used to be available at Google Books, but I’m not sure if it still is. You can always just buy it or find it at a library, in any case. I might purchase a copy of it on eBay or somewhere similar. --] (]) 13:05, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


:Ideas? ] (]) 18:20, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
::::I own a copy of Flynn (1980). It has two brief discussions of Jensen's ideas about Level I and Level II on pages 27-29 and 205-206. It seems consistent with the descriptions that we already have in the article. Let me know if you have questions. ] (]) 13:11, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


==Section on free speech and free academic discourse==
== Lynn on Bushmen ==
{{hat|IP-hopping troll. See ]. ] (]) 15:03, 13 December 2021 (UTC)}}
How about we include a section on the free speech and academic discourse surrounding this issue.
The firing of Noah Carl and Stephen Hsu, the stripping of honours of James Watson, the attempts to fire Amy Wax and JP Rushton, the physical violence against Charles Murray in Middlebury College, and the fact that Sam Harris said to Ezra Klein that he has scientists whose names would be well known to him, who have stellar reputations, who agree with him, and who are terrified of speaking out.


Let me know and I will write the paragraph and get the references. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 06:02, 13 December 2021 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
One of the captions says that according to Lynn's ''Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis'', ] are "mentally retarded". This sounds dubious. I'd like to have an exact quote on this.--] (]) 12:31, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
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== Reversion ==
:I haven't actually read Lynn's book, but when this was discussed on the talk page for the ] article someone quoted the relevant passage of it. Based on that, I'm pretty sure the way Lynn describes this is that Bushmen have a lower mental age than other groups of people. Some of Lynn's critics have interpreted this as meaning the same thing as mental retardation, but that isn't the wording Lynn actually uses. --] (]) 12:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


::If Lynn himself does not use the words "mentally retarded", then the article should not use them either.--] (]) 13:05, 2 June 2010 (UTC) Hi, does anyone know why my contribition was deleted? ] (]) 01:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
:::It's on page 76 of Lynn and referred in the secondary source, the book review of ]. Instead of blanking content, could editors please go to the secondary sources to verify the content? In Tucker's 2002 book, it was explained on Page 2 (and elsewhere) that the Pioneer Fund financed ]. That's why there was a precise page citation. I've slightly changed the wording to make this more explicit. ] (]) 13:13, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


:My bad. I jumped the gun in assuming this edit was Fq90 (a long-term abuser who has been evading their block to push a pro-fringe POV and trying to use mentions of polygenic scores to shoehorn that POV into R&I articles). Apologies to 98.153.62.223. That doesn't appear to have been your intent at all. However the edit copies verbatim from the R&I FAQ, so would need to be attributed in the edit summary (e.g. "content copied from ] FAQ"). A much more minor point is that I'm not sure whether the content in question is necessary, but that can be discussed. Again, sorry for the false accusation. ] (]) 02:06, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
:Anyone who is curious –– and not yet familiar –– can ] and work their way down the page through subsequent threads. ] (]) 02:11, 22 September 2022 (UTC)


:: I see, I was wondering what the Fq90 was. The reason I came to the article is because I teach genetics and evolution and this year two black students in a row have come to me with these polygenic scores asking about how to interpret them. It looks like the latest iteration of the usual racist pseudoscience peddling we are all familiar with. I do not work in this area specifically but as a biologist, I think ] is a good part of the explanation, unfortunately, I did not find any published work making that case, although I thought the article cited in the Q&A was pretty good. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 02:16, 22 September 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
Mathsci has just reverted the article six times in under 24 hours. Victor, you might want to report this at AN3. I'd rather not do it myself, because of my involvement both here and in the AN/I thread; I think it's generally preferable for things like this to be reported by someone who's as un-involved as possible.


:::Bird 2021 is indeed a good paper. And hearing more about what brought you here makes me want to apologize once again. For reference, this is what that long-term abuser posted on my user talk page just the other day (referencing polygenic scores): . But that doesn't excuse me for jumping the gun like that. To save you some time, here's how I explained why discussion of that paper doesn't belong in the Race and intelligence article in one of those past discussions I linked above: {{bq|The reason is that it's not clear that the views this study refutes are notable for inclusion in the article. If there were multiple reliable independent sources like this refuting those views then the situation would be different. The recent history is that an overtly racist IP argued for adding it after their more direct strategy of POV-pushing failed. It seems they figured they could use this study as a Trojan horse to justify presenting hereditarian arguments in more detail or something of that nature. Regardless, the basic issue is that this study does not appear to be DUE for inclusion when the views it refutes have so far not been considered to be. Further, if it were to be included, it would need to be presented in much more detail than the OP has done in order to avoid facile misreading. And it's not at all clear that such a detailed presentation would be DUE.}} Anyway, I'm open to being persuaded but that's the background. "DUE" in that quote refers to our core policy of presenting views in relation to ] weight. Cheers, ] (]) 02:27, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Let me know if you don’t want to, and I or David.Kane can do it. --] (]) 13:19, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


::::Thanks for the welcome! I am very sorry about that creep. It is obvious from just a cursory reading of their posts that they do not know the first thing about genetics. This is precisely the problem in this area, racists jump on data they do not have the qualifications to interpret and impose their pre-existing biases on it. I think we should be prepared to set the scientific record straight, and I am afraid we are not doing enough to counter the spread of this pseudoscience. I have not seen more peer-reviewed papers specifically addressing educational attainment. However, there is a lot of literature on why polygenic score comparisons between different ancestral populations are invalid. Maybe we can include these as well.<ref> https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2019/1/26/5262222</ref><ref> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01549-6</ref><ref> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28366442/</ref>] (]) 03:12, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
: Matschi now claims that ''Mankind Quarterly'' is "Pioneer-financed". This suggests that all or most of its funding is from Pioneer. Is this true? Currently, the article links together the Mainstream statement, Pioneer and Mankind Quarterly in a very POV manner.


:::::These are all really helpful explainers on polygenic scores! They may be useful if we need to further substantiate the R&I FAQ at some point, or in our main article ] (the second one is cited several times there but the others are not). However, when it comes to this article, we'd be running up against another one of Misplaced Pages's core policies, ] which means we can't cite articles that do not mention intelligence or I.Q. to make claims about intelligence or I.Q. We have to leave that kind of synthetic argumentation to scholars publishing out there in the world, and only once those publications are published can we report on what they say. The specific part of that policy that's relevant here is called ]. So if you're interested in applying the insights from those papers to the topic of race and intelligence, I would suggest trying to get something published, ideally in a high-quality peer-reviewed journal (as a rule of thumb, never add a ref you've written yourself but you can always bring it to other editors' attention on the talk page). Obviously publications like that take a ton of time and effort, but that really is what's required. ] (]) 03:44, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
: In the quote Lynn does not explicitly classify them as "mentally retarded". I modified the caption accordingly.


:::::: Hi, sorry I thought your last reversion was a mistake, since all of the articles are about race and intelligence. Could you please be more specific as to what claims in my last contribution are not in the sources?] (]) 01:00, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
: In reverting my edits, Mathsci ended up deleting corrections of fact, clarifications and additions that I think even he would approve of. Can we agree on which of them are ok? The quotes from the Mainstream statement should stay and the Lynn & Vanhanen books should be mentioned.


: Occam, I have no interest in reporting on Mathsci or anyone else, but you can of course do it if you want.--] (]) 14:03, 2 June 2010 (UTC) ::::::: I reverted that, the content is objectively not synthesis. GeneralRelative should read the articles cited, they are all about Race and Intelligence.] (]) 02:14, 7 October 2022 (UTC)


:::::::: Thank you, I made an effort to find articles specifically on race and intelligence because I found out why those black kids were asking me about those polygenic scores, it turns out an anonymous facebook user was posting them in a campus debate group and using them to promote racist pseudoscience. I was glad to see that actual scientists have already comprehensively rebutted this in the peer-reviewed literature.] (]) 03:27, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
:::I have reverted the vandalism by the driveby IP and requested semiprotection of the page; and will continue to do so, since it against consensus. He is removing images and text against consensus. In every other case I have in fact added new properly sourced content each time. Pioneer-financed is reported in the secondary source - it only means partially in this case. I have modified the caption to agree with the secondary source (Mackintosh) and the primary source (Lynn) and disambiguate ]. Thanks, ] (]) 18:12, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


{{od}}
== Request for arbitration ==
Please read ] and wait until ''after'' a consensus about this has been reached here before reinserting disputed content. Thanks. ] (]) 09:37, 7 October 2022 (UTC)


If the disputed content is rewritten so that it directly represents the sources (that is, if the ] issue is resolved), then a second task is to make the text accessible to readers. Please see ]. Perusing the proposed text, I see the terms ''genome-wide'', ''genetic loci'', ''population structure'', ''assortative mating'', ''population substructure'', and ''polygenic''. I'd wager that most Misplaced Pages readers who do not have specialized training in genetics or related fields would have no clear understanding of what any of those terms mean. Those terms can and should be translated into commonly understood English. ] (]) 11:37, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Note that a ] has been filed relating to various disputes over this article (among others). ] (]) 18:16, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


:Agreed. IP 98.153.62.223: I am not categorically opposed to including content broadly similar to what you're seeking to add, but I think we need to carefully unpack what each of these sources is claiming and how it relates to the topic of race and intelligence. As is stands, I see only two of the sources you've mentioned as being transparently germane to the topic. The first, Bird et al. , has already been discussed. My views on that one should be clear. The second, , is more dodgy, notably because one of the co-authors is a notorious (around here) racist pseudoscience promoter. See . That doesn't mean it can never be considered DUE for inclusion, but the bar is certainly higher. The other four sources you've cited appear to me to represent SYNTH because they are not about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page, i.e. purported group-level differences in intelligence intelligence between racial groups. One discusses how polygenic scores may be useful when assessing propensity for intelligence among ''individual'' African Americans, a group which had previously been poorly represented in such studies, but which does not discuss the idea of purported group-level differences between races. Another source discusses polygenic scores in relation to intelligence but does not discuss race at all. A third mentions the word "intelligence" in conjunction with educational attainment but does not make any positive claims about how the two concepts may be related, and indeed, in the bit you quote from they are talking about the latter rather than the former. Finally, the ''Nature'' article you've cited does not mention intelligence at all. So it's not at all clear to me how these sources add up to a non-synthetic argument about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page which is DUE for inclusion in the encyclopedia. I hope that makes sense. ] (]) 12:06, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
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:: & Oh, ok, I did not know the authors of the paper, I just assumed it to be reliable because it came from Cambridge University press. This paper though does not make any racist claims, just the opposite. Perhaps the author is changing his mind on account of new evidence.
Yes - MathSci, MikeMikev, and David Kane really did agree that the miniportraits were nice. And i will add my vote to the list. So it really is true that people who are often divided can find some common ground!


:: I think you are just splitting hairs with this one, this one is precisely about differences in educational attainment polygenic score predictive power between blacks and whites. It is clearly about race and intelligence
Now, an anonymous editor has entered into a revert war deleting the images. Apparently this IP raised an objection on this talk page, and no one agreed with the objection, and two editors who have usually differed with MathSci supported him in this case. So the IP ''knows'' that editors with a history of work on this article support the images. That this person has gone to war deleting images and reverting MathSci seems to me to be the worst kind of ]. It serves no purpose except to discourage any agreement (let alone collaboration) between MathSci, David and Mike.


:: does discuss race, they just call it ancestry, see the quote I provided:
The page is now protected but I urge any admin checking this out to see that MathSci was restoring edits supported by a consensus of registered users, in opposition to an anonymous SPA who refuses to listen to anyone else. ] | ] 19:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:Thanks Slr. In my new temporary statement on the RfAr I describe this consensus as a "rare event". I have no idea who the driveby IP was, but they were simply vandalizing the article. I can see no reason to ] in this case. It was out-and-out vandalism. ] (]) 20:05, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
::Agreed. I think the photos added a nice touch and made the article better. I could imagine a reasonable argument for decreasing their number or substituting some for others, but visitor did not seem interested in discussion. Don't we know any admins who can fix this? ] (]) 20:13, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:::No one has yet to lift even a finger to support the images notability for inclusion individually or as a group. At the moment this is simply a textbook example of the fact that Misplaced Pages is not run by "Votes". "Nice pictures" is not sufficient support for their encyclopedic notability. ] (]) 20:19, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
::::I'll also add that I'm tremendousnessly disappointed in the Editor "Mathsci's" fabrications. Your false declaration at ArbCom is troubling: ''"On the other hand I haven't seen the level of disruptive edits that have occurred on the history article, with no scholarly basis whatsoever. I don't quite know why, but a series of IPs has been randomly vandalizing the article for the last two weeks, removing images and newly added content"''
::::My first edit to the article was at 13:30, yesterday June 1st. One needs to go back to early last month to find the next IP edits:, from there one needs to go back nearly another week - except this IP edit ''inserts'' an image:. Your false testimony otherwise, coupled with your unshaded declaration of no ], and blatant mis-characterization of my edit as drive by vandalism does nothing to further honest discussion of the debate on its merits and substance. One can only wonder how often you resort to such techniques when your intellect fails you - perhaps such behavior can be found littered along the route that brought you before Arb-Com in the first place.] (]) 20:50, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
{{od}} 99.141.254.167: Can you point us toward any Misplaced Pages policy which specifies how many photos are too many in an article? Perhaps I am naive, but most encyclopedias that write an article which mentions X like to include a picture of X, if one is available. Given that the article mentions, for example, Arthur Jensen, what is wrong with including a picture of him? Perhaps your position is that the article should only include photos of people about whom there is enough discussion? I just want to get a better sense of your point of view. Can you point us toward examples of articles that also had too many photos but which, after discussion, had them removed? ] (]) 21:01, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:I agree with you on Jensen. Jensen was retained, as perhaps 3/4 of the article revolves around him. Shockley, given his fame, his association and his influence on Jensen was also retained. Lysenko's infamy and real world ramifications kept his image. (I was also influenced by a desire to highlight the link as a sort of educational "Someone You Should Know") Binet was kept (again a closet link, like Lysenko, advertising, "Something You Should Know") as the path here begins at IQ testing, itself a notable and important subject for it's controversial utility and influence. ] (]) 21:19, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
::I think the pictures are great. ''Maybe'' the Lysenko and Boas portraits are questionable, since they weren't direct participants, acting more as "labels" for a certain points of view. The rest I have no problem with, and I think they help readers connect better by putting faces with a bunch of unfamiliar names. ] (]) 21:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:I'm also going to remove the wanted poster for the Weather Underground. This group, and its members, are not related to local SDS chapter action in 1973 (The image caption here incorrectly dates the protest to 1969). The Weather faction did not exist until the SDS national convention, becoming first the Weathermen and overthrowing SDS leadership before the organization SDS later effectively dissolved and core members went underground. The poster has no relevance and is an historical mis-characterization. Also note that the faction that protested (SDS-WSA) was specifically the faction that DID NOT support or include Weather.] (]) 21:43, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:: The picture illustrates the article. The FBI picture dates from 1970 and the people pictured were leaders of ]. You incorrectly assert that the protest was in 1973. However that claim is cdirectly ontradicted by what's written in the 1975 article by Lee Cronbach, where he describes how the protest as occuring in 1969 two weeks after Jensen's paper appeared. The caption had a citation and you didn't bother to check the secondary source. Your personal point of view is irrelevant for editing wikipedia. ] (]) 22:28, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:::Can you please directly quote the source which attributes the protest to any one of the pictured individuals - or to the Weather Underground? An organization which itself did not exist as such until Christmas, 1969? Thank you in advance for the direct quote in support of the claim.] (]) 22:37, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
<== Passage from page 3 of Cronbach (1975):


:::Given that greater than 70% of GWAS participants are of European descent (Need and Goldstein 2009; Popejoy and Fullerton 2016; N. A. Rosenberg et al. 2010), the implications of this problem of portability are that PGS for EA and IQ are more likely to misidentify the outcomes of individuals of non-European ancestry who were historically and are currently disadvantaged in American classrooms.
{{quote box|As soon as the article was in type the publicity broke. The Harvard Review made the article available to the press along with the remarks of the prearranged critics. Substantial excerpts appeared in U.S. News and the New York Times, and lesser accounts appeared in other media. Within two weeks, the Students for a Democratic Society were cruising the Berkeley campus with a sound truck whose chant was "Stop racism. Fire Jensen!"And on the Eastern seaboard, it was rumored that the Nixon cabinet had discussed whether the article could be used to justify reducing outlays to aid blacks.}}


:: When you said:
So 1969, not 1973. Other sources write "Fight racism. Fire Jensen!" (probably more accurate, if it matters). 99.141.254.167 will find that Jensen wrote about this event in the 1972 book "Genetics and Education". Why is he trying to contribute here if everything he says contradicts the sources, which he doesn't bother to read? The illustration illustrates the organization not the protests. Only he seems to object and h;s said a number of quite incorrect things so far. Why should anybody pay any attention to his personal thoughts on wikipedia? This isn't a ] after all is it? ] (]) 22:48, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:::mentions the word "intelligence" in conjunction with educational attainment


::did you mean to say “race” rather than “intelligence”? I think you may have a typo there as in the literature “intelligence” and “educational attainment” are used interchangeably. EA is what is known as an instrumental variable for intelligence, as intelligence cannot be directly measured.
:::Your reference has nothing at all to do with the Weathermen. Period. The FBI wanted poster has no relevance at all. My ref regarding the 1973 SDS protest referred to "A Resolution Against Racism" that was published in the New York Times on October 28, 1973 that specifically targeted Jensen and Shockley, leading to the formation of the Committee Against Racism, (CAR). ] (]) 22:56, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
::::Which secondary source cites the letter to the New York Times? ] (]) 23:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
:::::It wasn't a letter. Here are some cites: It's also described in this Misplaced Pages entry on the SDS here: Are the cites acceptable?] (]) 00:29, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
::::::I'll take it that no further opposition to removing the FBI poster exists?] (]) 19:24, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
:::::::All your suggestions for removing images are invalid. You are simply being disruptive. All the picture illustrate indivuals involved in the controversy. Your reasons for emoving them seem petty and not designed to increase the readability of the article. If you look at a standard texbook on the ], such as that of Ludy T. Benjamin, pictures do appear. Your suggestions seem wholly negative and not designed to improve this encyclopedia. The half page advertisement can be mentioned, but no reliable secondary source indicates that SDS, in whatever form it had by 1973, was responsible for collecting the signatures. The other images were supported by all contributors to this page except you and so will be restored when the page is unlocked. If you persist in edit warring to remove them, your own editing patterns will probably be mentioned in the current ArbCom case. IP editors rarely appear to suddenly edit an article of this type without having previously edited wikipedia under a different account. ] (]) 11:12, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
::::::::I agree with MathSci. The consensus of editors here clearly want more pictures, not fewer and there is no Misplaced Pages policy against such a preference. I am happy to discuss the merits of '''specific images''' --- for example, the Nazi pamphlet should go; maybe the Wanted poster is off-topic --- but wholesale deletions without discussion are clearly unacceptable. Once the article restriction is lifted, I support adding the images back. ] (]) 12:08, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
:::::::::What Nazi pamphlet? Could David.Kane clarify his thoughts a little? My guess is that many editors voicing opinions here will not be permitted to edit these articles in a month or two's time. ] (]) 23:44, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
{{od}} I was referring to which, I now see, was not a Nazi pamphlet. The description given is "The first issue of Neue Anthropologie was dedicated to Fritz Lenz, coauthor with Erwin Baur and Eugen Fischer of a text on Rassenhygiene, the scientific theory used to justify genocide in Nazi Germany". Comments: 1) To the extent that this belongs in the article at all, it does not belong in the section labeled 1960-1980. 2) As best I can tell, none of those author or the journal itself are mentioned in the article. 3) Although I agree that on-topic images are good, images with no direct connection to the text/topic of an article are bad. At the very least, the caption needs to make clear what relevance the image has, at least if it is not obvious from reading the article. Given all that, I am deleting, but I am not against it being re-added if someone can fix/explain the above. I think that the vast majority of MathSci's other images should be re-added. But, instead of simply adding them all back (I don't want to edit war), I will just add back a selection of the most relevant ones. ] (]) 02:38, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


::If you did mean race, did you read the article or just the abstract? The article is all about race and intelligence.
===Weather Underground FBI wanted poster===


::The Nature article does mention intelligence, it just calls it cognitive performance, and has this to say about how it relates to race and racism:
The FBI wanted poster of the Weather Underground has no relevance whatsoever here. Weather had no involvement. The ref supplied earlier makes no mention of Weather. The Weather Underground on the poster did not even exist until Christmas of 1969. It's removal is required.] (]) 19:33, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
:Those pictured were the leaders of SDS. Your own account, which seems to be an alternative account of a regular editor, has been so disruptive on various noticeboards that it is likely to be blocked fairly soon based on ]. ] (]) 23:49, 9 June 2010 (UTC
::No. Those pictured were leaders of the Weather Underground. The SDS of Berkeley in 1969 were unrelated. Please produce a ref showing any Weather Underground involvement, the group didn't even exist then. We really shouldn't be creating an artificial history were none exists. It's important to be honest with our sources.] (]) 01:15, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
:::I've removed the images again. Please do not re-insert. There was ''no'' Berkeley Chapter of the Weather Underground. the Weather Underground did not even exist then.] (]) 13:37, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
::::Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
===Cattell, 2 images and 1 disingenuous caption===


:::In our analysis of possible relationships between average phenotypes for worldwide populations and average polygenic scores for those populations, we chose to examine height because it is easily measured and because factors affecting height (e.g., nutrition) are also relatively easily quantified. In contrast, research on other variables such as weight, smoking status, psychological symptoms, and cognitive performance requires more careful control for environmental confounders (including variables like social status), which are often correlated with ancestry and therefore may also be correlated with global principal components and polygenic scores (as currently calculated). This means that confounding of environmental and genetic effects is likely. For example, social experiences such as being subjected to racism are prime candidates for confounding in genetic studies.] (]) 14:22, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I've removed the images of Cattell. The article text does not support his importance at 15, nor does it support the claim, "''... one of Jensen's main supporters, referring to his opponents as "ignoracists''"" The term does not appear to be a Jensen-centric term. Indeed, evidence shows a wide and general use. Here are some refs, "''one may guess that the explanation lies outside science in the racist prejudices of Hitler and the ignoracist counter-prejudices of which he is the originator''", Theophile Stanley Krawiec There are many, the oldest I can find is from 1971, "''Racists and ignoracists are equally anathema to the scientist and to the man of good will and faith in evolution''." Robert Cancro It also appears possibly multidisciplinary with one noted IPE scholar also using the term


In short the images are, for a start, misrepresentative, are of undue weight ''and'' lack notability.] (]) 13:32, 10 June 2010 (UTC) ::::I agree with 98.153.62.223 all of the articles are clearly about race and intelligence. There is no synthesis here. Regarding the issue of technical language, that is why I included their links to their respective articles ] (]) 15:20, 7 October 2022 (UTC)


:::::I agree with both the IPs. Racist pseudoscientists have been twaddling about this since at least 2014… watch this one from 40:35 . We cannot allow them to continue to have a monopoly on this data. The content seems very well written to me, and clearly it is not SYNTH. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 16:01, 7 October 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


:::IP: 98.153.62.223: To answer in brief, yes I did read each of them, quite carefully; no I did not mean to write "race" instead of "intelligence"; and no, you cannot simply assume that when authors speak about "educational attainment" they mean "intelligence" (that is quite a leap). ] (]) 16:24, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
===Verschuer image===


:::: I do not think it is "quite a leap" I think this is, like 98.153.62.223 woudl say, hair splitting. The word education is used 56 times in this article. While we are here splitting hairs hate mongering groups are misusing this data to spread their poison, and people who come to this article leave with no ammo to counter it. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 19:39, 7 October 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
I've removed the Verschuer image, not-notable, not supported by article text and eugenic twin studies go back to at least Galton in the 1800's .... as well as continue to this day.] (]) 15:45, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


::::::I share your concerns, but Misplaced Pages is not in the business of supplying ammo. See e.g. ]. And of course one person's "splitting hairs" is another person's, ya know, stating their case. I will be very happy to collaborate with you to find text that does convey these arguments in a way that is consistent with policy if we can find a way to do so. And if we can, I'd be even more happy to add it to the main article ], where more eyes will see it. But we cannot play fast and loose with policy in order to right great wrongs, and we must certainly not treat public discourse as a battlefield –– even if that's how it feels sometimes. ] (]) 23:14, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
===Terman image===
I've removed the Terman image, not notable. Additionally Binet's image is already prominently featured. Binet, as the namesake, is sufficient to illustrate the Stanford-Binet IQ test. ] (]) 15:50, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


:::::It is indeed a huge leap to say that we can substitute ''intelligence'' for ''educational attainment'' in wikivoice. That would mean that anyone with a PhD is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone with a Masters, anyone with a high school diploma is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone whose formal education was cut short, and so on. There's no consensus, either among the general public, among Misplaced Pages editors, or among scholars that ''intelligence'' means the same thing as ''educational attainment''. ] (]) 20:28, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
===Goddard image===
I've removed the image. Image is not notable.] (]) 15:50, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


:::::: No it would not mean that that would mean that anyone with a PhD is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone with a Masters, anyone with a high school diploma is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone whose formal education was cut short, and so on, because this is a correlation, not a one to one correspondence. You do not need to think everyone who smokes will get lung cancer to acknowledge that there is a correlation between somking and lung cancer. And no one is arguing that EA and intelligence are the same thing. All I am saying is that scientific papers have to deal with quantifiable phenomena. There is no single number you can give to assess a person's intelligence. You can however, give a single number saying how many years of education they have, and that gives you some idea how intelligent they are in certain areas. Since we are only commenting on this article now, are we satisfied that the others are not synthesis? ] (]) 22:57, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
===Draper image===
:::::::::Educational attainment correlates with a lot of things, for example parental income. But we could not in wikivoice make a statement about parental income sourced to an article that talks about educational attainment and doesn't mention parental income.
:::::::::You mention smoking. I think that, at least in the US, educational attainment also correlates with non-smoking. So would we make a statement about non-smoking sourced to an article about educational attainment? ] (]) 02:02, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
:::::::{{tq|are we satisfied that the others are not synthesis?}} No. See my comment above of 12:06, 7 October. ] (]) 23:11, 7 October 2022 (UTC)


:::::::: <small>] removed. ] (]) 23:46, 7 October 2022 (UTC) </small>
Not notable, also appears to give undue weight. Although the idea is widely held in disrepute today it was not outside the mainstream then. Focusing on Draper is Undue Weight. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Harriman, Ford, Kellogg, Gamble, Dodge, Scripps, Biddle, Morgan ... etc, all were publicly associated with, and financial supporters of, eugenics.] (]) 16:04, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


::::::::: I agree, there is no reason this article should ignore the last decade of genetic research over editors who claim a piece of content is SYNTH when it clearly is not. ] (]) 23:28, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
===Boas image===
:::::::::This isn't a vote, and edit warring by new editors like this in an area that is under sanctions (as well as a very frequent target of sockpuppet edits by long term abusers of Misplaced Pages) is a terrible idea. ] (]) 23:34, 7 October 2022 (UTC)


:::::::::: If it is not a vote, how is consensus established then? I am sorry some abuser agrees with us that we should add this, but that is no reason for not adding it, Hitler was against smoking I believe, but that does not mean smoking is good. ] (]) 23:36, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Removed. Not-notable image. ] (]) 15:56, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC) :::::::::::You can read about that at ]. This article recently came off of a 1 year protection. Since IP edit warring has resumed, I have requested that protection be restored. - ] (]) 23:38, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::Thanks MrOllie. Unfortunately it seems like that may be necessary. ] (]) 23:48, 7 October 2022 (UTC)


:::::::::::::Could you at least explain in light of what I said in response to Generalrelative, why the content is synthesis, I am sorry but I genuinely do not understand, Generalrelative says "The other four sources you've cited appear to me to represent SYNTH because they are not about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page", but I think I have shown clearly that they are.] (]) 23:50, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
===Eysenck image===
::::::::::::::You are pretty obviously combining multiple sources to make points that no individual source makes explicitly, that is synthesis. ] (]) 23:57, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::IP 98.153.62.223: I agree with MrOllie. You simply haven't convinced me that my objections were off base. That said, I really do want to collaborate with you on this. I meant what I said on your talk page that I think you could be a very valuable contributor to this project. But there is a learning curve here. We all run into it once we start to get involved with topics we're passionately connected to. I strongly encourage you to register an account and to continue to contribute in areas relevant to your expertise. ] (]) 00:00, 8 October 2022 (UTC)


{{od}} MrOllie: Would you please state the point he is making that is not explicitly in the sources?
Eysenck image removed as not notable and undue weight. Jensen's mentor's portrait has no place here. The controversy neither begins, nor ends, with Jensen - or his mentor. ] (]) 16:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Generalrelative: Why is MrOllie claiming the problem is that he makes a point not in the sources, do you agree with that or do you stand by your claim that the problem is that the sources are not about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page? You made several false statements to back up that claim, 98.153.62.223 provided exact quotes were the articles discuss the topic of this Misplaced Pages page explicitly. Are you telling us not to believe our lying eyes? ] (]) 01:54, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


:It's the same problem. One way to tell that synthesis is occurring is that the citations are not about the same thing. - ] (]) 02:06, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
===Neue Anthropologie image===
::Precisely. ] (]) 02:19, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Not at all notable. The caption notes that: 'Jensen had a peripheral relationship to a journal founded in 1973 that featured separately at one time a guy named Lenz in it's first issue, Lenz once co-authored a paper with two others on ]. Rassenhygiene is the theory underlying the holocaust.'


The evils of eugenics may be made stark through the application of the swastika - but it predates them and was firmly entrenched in English speaking, and many other, societies before then. Indeed, ]'s use here is just a dressing up of Galton's idea in German clothes. Lenz didn't create the thought, and the Journal's 1973 foundation are not relevant. The image is undue, not notable and a misrepresentative simplification and Godwin influenced near-canard.] (]) 16:42, 10 June 2010 (UTC) ::: It is not the same problem. I take it since you did not provide an example of any points made in the content that are not explicitly in the sources, that you granted that the claims are in the sources, you just agree with Generalrelative that the problem is that the sources are not about race and intelligence. Correct? if not do provide the point you think is not in the sources. ] (]) 02:23, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


::::No, but have fun arguing with that straw man. ] (]) 02:25, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
===Burt image===


::::: Give us the claim(s) not in the articles then. ] (]) 02:29, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Removed Burt, not notable and undue weight - Twin studies have been academically documented continuously to this day from back over 100 years. The image does nothing to further our understanding, indeed its prominent use and perceived directed conclusion actually obscure the wider and more complex encyclopedic telling of this academically disreputable controversy.] (]) 16:56, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC) {{od}} FYI IP 98.153.62.223 has opened up a discussion on this matter at ]. Let's see if others feel like weighing in. ] (]) 02:31, 8 October 2022 (UTC)


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===Gould image===


== More illustrations? ==
I've removed the image of a single member of the short-lived 35 person student/professor - ]. Undue weight.] (]) 17:05, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


Some illustrations I randomly found on Wikimedia Commons in the last few weeks:
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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No replies required; maybe somebody wants to add one of these in the future. ] (]) 11:35, 12 October 2024 (UTC)


== Bell Curve and Heritability ==
===Skull images (multiple)===


* race differences in intelligence, treated from the same hereditarian standpoint as Jensen's 1969 paper
I've removed one of the two skulls. Not notable and not reflective of the "early history" section. The image predates article text and is not an image derived or referenced in relation to the article subject.] (]) 17:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
:Which secondary source are you citing - or is this personal opinion? Misplaced Pages is not edited this way. ] (]) 20:12, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


I recall the lead author of ''The Bell Curve'' saying just the opposite of that: i.e., that only half of the IQ gap is due to heredity or that it's impossible to estimate the percentage:
== IP editor reported on ] ==
:It seems highly likely to us that both genes and environment have something to do with racial differences. What might the mix be? We are resolutely agnostic on that issue; as far as we can determine, the evidence does not yet justify an estimate.
And
:As Herrnstein and Murray concede, children from very low socio-economic status backgrounds who are adopted into high socio-economic status backgrounds have '''IQs dramatically higher than their parents.'''


Moreover, ] thinks it's entirely due to culture (see '']''). ] (]) 00:15, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Since this editor has used three IPs and appears to be a sockpuppet account who has been warned for disruptive and tendentious edits on
] I have reported him on ]. Almost all his points are POV-pushing. he has removed sourced captions in what looks like an edit war by a POV-pusher who does not engage with secondary sources. His removal of images seems to be an act of disruptive and tendentious editing. His reasoning is illogical and not borne out by any secondary sources: as on the other articles he has edited, he is behaving kike a classic edit warrior and the sockpuppet account of a banned user. the reasons he gives above for Terman, Burt, Gould, etc, "non-notable image" are just blatant trolling by a user determined to disrupt wikipedia: the removal of these images is essantially childish disruption for its own sake. ] (]) 20:08, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

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Adding the latest genetic research

How about adding it like this?

In recent years scientists have found thousands of the SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) associated with educational attainment (a close proxy for IQ) in what are known as genome-wide association studies. Collectively, these SNPs account for about 10% of the variance in educational attainment in European populations. The distribution of these genetic variants across races is consistent with the environmental explanation for observed racial differences in IQ scores. 93.149.193.190 (talk) 17:07, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

References

  1. https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2014188
  2. https://www.genomeweb.com/genetic-research/analysis-11m-people-ties-more-thousand-snps-educational-attainment
  3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33529393/
  4. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2019.1697803

Whats wrong with that paragraph guys. I would have thought you would love it. 93.149.193.190 (talk) 18:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

As explained, this proposal is synthesis/original research, which is against Misplaced Pages policy. Skllagyook (talk) 23:02, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

It is neither and you know it. Both articles are published in reputable scientific journals. The paragraph says exactly what the articles say. The only reason you do not want the content to be included is because, even though the article says they do not, the polygenic scores in fact DO support a genetic component to the gap. And you hate the idea that people might actually check and realise what these polygenic scores mean. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.147.71.31 (talk) 21:41, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Ideas? 5.88.141.195 (talk) 18:20, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Section on free speech and free academic discourse

IP-hopping troll. See this. Generalrelative (talk) 15:03, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

How about we include a section on the free speech and academic discourse surrounding this issue. The firing of Noah Carl and Stephen Hsu, the stripping of honours of James Watson, the attempts to fire Amy Wax and JP Rushton, the physical violence against Charles Murray in Middlebury College, and the fact that Sam Harris said to Ezra Klein that he has scientists whose names would be well known to him, who have stellar reputations, who agree with him, and who are terrified of speaking out.

Let me know and I will write the paragraph and get the references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2800:484:877C:94F0:50F5:133D:B6CD:D3A6 (talk) 06:02, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Reversion

Hi, does anyone know why my contribition was deleted? 98.153.62.223 (talk) 01:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

My bad. I jumped the gun in assuming this edit was Fq90 (a long-term abuser who has been evading their block to push a pro-fringe POV and trying to use mentions of polygenic scores to shoehorn that POV into R&I articles). Apologies to 98.153.62.223. That doesn't appear to have been your intent at all. However the edit copies verbatim from the R&I FAQ, so would need to be attributed in the edit summary (e.g. "content copied from Race and intelligence FAQ"). A much more minor point is that I'm not sure whether the content in question is necessary, but that can be discussed. Again, sorry for the false accusation. Generalrelative (talk) 02:06, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Anyone who is curious –– and not yet familiar –– can start here and work their way down the page through subsequent threads. Generalrelative (talk) 02:11, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
I see, I was wondering what the Fq90 was. The reason I came to the article is because I teach genetics and evolution and this year two black students in a row have come to me with these polygenic scores asking about how to interpret them. It looks like the latest iteration of the usual racist pseudoscience peddling we are all familiar with. I do not work in this area specifically but as a biologist, I think linkage disequilibrium is a good part of the explanation, unfortunately, I did not find any published work making that case, although I thought the article cited in the Q&A was pretty good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.153.62.223 (talk) 02:16, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Bird 2021 is indeed a good paper. And hearing more about what brought you here makes me want to apologize once again. For reference, this is what that long-term abuser posted on my user talk page just the other day (referencing polygenic scores): . But that doesn't excuse me for jumping the gun like that. To save you some time, here's how I explained why discussion of that paper doesn't belong in the Race and intelligence article in one of those past discussions I linked above:

The reason is that it's not clear that the views this study refutes are notable for inclusion in the article. If there were multiple reliable independent sources like this refuting those views then the situation would be different. The recent history is that an overtly racist IP argued for adding it after their more direct strategy of POV-pushing failed. It seems they figured they could use this study as a Trojan horse to justify presenting hereditarian arguments in more detail or something of that nature. Regardless, the basic issue is that this study does not appear to be DUE for inclusion when the views it refutes have so far not been considered to be. Further, if it were to be included, it would need to be presented in much more detail than the OP has done in order to avoid facile misreading. And it's not at all clear that such a detailed presentation would be DUE.

Anyway, I'm open to being persuaded but that's the background. "DUE" in that quote refers to our core policy of presenting views in relation to WP:DUE weight. Cheers, Generalrelative (talk) 02:27, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome! I am very sorry about that creep. It is obvious from just a cursory reading of their posts that they do not know the first thing about genetics. This is precisely the problem in this area, racists jump on data they do not have the qualifications to interpret and impose their pre-existing biases on it. I think we should be prepared to set the scientific record straight, and I am afraid we are not doing enough to counter the spread of this pseudoscience. I have not seen more peer-reviewed papers specifically addressing educational attainment. However, there is a lot of literature on why polygenic score comparisons between different ancestral populations are invalid. Maybe we can include these as well.98.153.62.223 (talk) 03:12, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
These are all really helpful explainers on polygenic scores! They may be useful if we need to further substantiate the R&I FAQ at some point, or in our main article polygenic scores (the second one is cited several times there but the others are not). However, when it comes to this article, we'd be running up against another one of Misplaced Pages's core policies, "no original research," which means we can't cite articles that do not mention intelligence or I.Q. to make claims about intelligence or I.Q. We have to leave that kind of synthetic argumentation to scholars publishing out there in the world, and only once those publications are published can we report on what they say. The specific part of that policy that's relevant here is called WP:SYNTH. So if you're interested in applying the insights from those papers to the topic of race and intelligence, I would suggest trying to get something published, ideally in a high-quality peer-reviewed journal (as a rule of thumb, never add a ref you've written yourself but you can always bring it to other editors' attention on the talk page). Obviously publications like that take a ton of time and effort, but that really is what's required. Generalrelative (talk) 03:44, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi, sorry I thought your last reversion was a mistake, since all of the articles are about race and intelligence. Could you please be more specific as to what claims in my last contribution are not in the sources?98.153.62.223 (talk) 01:00, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I reverted that, the content is objectively not synthesis. GeneralRelative should read the articles cited, they are all about Race and Intelligence.70.113.252.247 (talk) 02:14, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, I made an effort to find articles specifically on race and intelligence because I found out why those black kids were asking me about those polygenic scores, it turns out an anonymous facebook user was posting them in a campus debate group and using them to promote racist pseudoscience. I was glad to see that actual scientists have already comprehensively rebutted this in the peer-reviewed literature.98.153.62.223 (talk) 03:27, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Please read WP:BRD and wait until after a consensus about this has been reached here before reinserting disputed content. Thanks. NightHeron (talk) 09:37, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

If the disputed content is rewritten so that it directly represents the sources (that is, if the WP:SYNTH issue is resolved), then a second task is to make the text accessible to readers. Please see WP:MTAU. Perusing the proposed text, I see the terms genome-wide, genetic loci, population structure, assortative mating, population substructure, and polygenic. I'd wager that most Misplaced Pages readers who do not have specialized training in genetics or related fields would have no clear understanding of what any of those terms mean. Those terms can and should be translated into commonly understood English. NightHeron (talk) 11:37, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. IP 98.153.62.223: I am not categorically opposed to including content broadly similar to what you're seeking to add, but I think we need to carefully unpack what each of these sources is claiming and how it relates to the topic of race and intelligence. As is stands, I see only two of the sources you've mentioned as being transparently germane to the topic. The first, Bird et al. , has already been discussed. My views on that one should be clear. The second, , is more dodgy, notably because one of the co-authors is a notorious (around here) racist pseudoscience promoter. See . That doesn't mean it can never be considered DUE for inclusion, but the bar is certainly higher. The other four sources you've cited appear to me to represent SYNTH because they are not about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page, i.e. purported group-level differences in intelligence intelligence between racial groups. One discusses how polygenic scores may be useful when assessing propensity for intelligence among individual African Americans, a group which had previously been poorly represented in such studies, but which does not discuss the idea of purported group-level differences between races. Another source discusses polygenic scores in relation to intelligence but does not discuss race at all. A third mentions the word "intelligence" in conjunction with educational attainment but does not make any positive claims about how the two concepts may be related, and indeed, in the bit you quote from they are talking about the latter rather than the former. Finally, the Nature article you've cited does not mention intelligence at all. So it's not at all clear to me how these sources add up to a non-synthetic argument about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page which is DUE for inclusion in the encyclopedia. I hope that makes sense. Generalrelative (talk) 12:06, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
& Oh, ok, I did not know the authors of the paper, I just assumed it to be reliable because it came from Cambridge University press. This paper though does not make any racist claims, just the opposite. Perhaps the author is changing his mind on account of new evidence.
I think you are just splitting hairs with this one, this one is precisely about differences in educational attainment polygenic score predictive power between blacks and whites. It is clearly about race and intelligence
does discuss race, they just call it ancestry, see the quote I provided:
Given that greater than 70% of GWAS participants are of European descent (Need and Goldstein 2009; Popejoy and Fullerton 2016; N. A. Rosenberg et al. 2010), the implications of this problem of portability are that PGS for EA and IQ are more likely to misidentify the outcomes of individuals of non-European ancestry who were historically and are currently disadvantaged in American classrooms.
When you said:
mentions the word "intelligence" in conjunction with educational attainment
did you mean to say “race” rather than “intelligence”? I think you may have a typo there as in the literature “intelligence” and “educational attainment” are used interchangeably. EA is what is known as an instrumental variable for intelligence, as intelligence cannot be directly measured.
If you did mean race, did you read the article or just the abstract? The article is all about race and intelligence.
The Nature article does mention intelligence, it just calls it cognitive performance, and has this to say about how it relates to race and racism:
In our analysis of possible relationships between average phenotypes for worldwide populations and average polygenic scores for those populations, we chose to examine height because it is easily measured and because factors affecting height (e.g., nutrition) are also relatively easily quantified. In contrast, research on other variables such as weight, smoking status, psychological symptoms, and cognitive performance requires more careful control for environmental confounders (including variables like social status), which are often correlated with ancestry and therefore may also be correlated with global principal components and polygenic scores (as currently calculated). This means that confounding of environmental and genetic effects is likely. For example, social experiences such as being subjected to racism are prime candidates for confounding in genetic studies.98.153.62.223 (talk) 14:22, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I agree with 98.153.62.223 all of the articles are clearly about race and intelligence. There is no synthesis here. Regarding the issue of technical language, that is why I included their links to their respective articles 70.113.252.247 (talk) 15:20, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I agree with both the IPs. Racist pseudoscientists have been twaddling about this since at least 2014… watch this one from 40:35 . We cannot allow them to continue to have a monopoly on this data. The content seems very well written to me, and clearly it is not SYNTH. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.17.88.210 (talk) 16:01, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
IP: 98.153.62.223: To answer in brief, yes I did read each of them, quite carefully; no I did not mean to write "race" instead of "intelligence"; and no, you cannot simply assume that when authors speak about "educational attainment" they mean "intelligence" (that is quite a leap). Generalrelative (talk) 16:24, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I do not think it is "quite a leap" I think this is, like 98.153.62.223 woudl say, hair splitting. The word education is used 56 times in this article. While we are here splitting hairs hate mongering groups are misusing this data to spread their poison, and people who come to this article leave with no ammo to counter it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.17.88.210 (talk) 19:39, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I share your concerns, but Misplaced Pages is not in the business of supplying ammo. See e.g. WP:RGW. And of course one person's "splitting hairs" is another person's, ya know, stating their case. I will be very happy to collaborate with you to find text that does convey these arguments in a way that is consistent with policy if we can find a way to do so. And if we can, I'd be even more happy to add it to the main article Race and intelligence, where more eyes will see it. But we cannot play fast and loose with policy in order to right great wrongs, and we must certainly not treat public discourse as a battlefield –– even if that's how it feels sometimes. Generalrelative (talk) 23:14, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
It is indeed a huge leap to say that we can substitute intelligence for educational attainment in wikivoice. That would mean that anyone with a PhD is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone with a Masters, anyone with a high school diploma is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone whose formal education was cut short, and so on. There's no consensus, either among the general public, among Misplaced Pages editors, or among scholars that intelligence means the same thing as educational attainment. NightHeron (talk) 20:28, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
No it would not mean that that would mean that anyone with a PhD is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone with a Masters, anyone with a high school diploma is necessarily "more intelligent" than someone whose formal education was cut short, and so on, because this is a correlation, not a one to one correspondence. You do not need to think everyone who smokes will get lung cancer to acknowledge that there is a correlation between somking and lung cancer. And no one is arguing that EA and intelligence are the same thing. All I am saying is that scientific papers have to deal with quantifiable phenomena. There is no single number you can give to assess a person's intelligence. You can however, give a single number saying how many years of education they have, and that gives you some idea how intelligent they are in certain areas. Since we are only commenting on this article now, are we satisfied that the others are not synthesis? 98.153.62.223 (talk) 22:57, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Educational attainment correlates with a lot of things, for example parental income. But we could not in wikivoice make a statement about parental income sourced to an article that talks about educational attainment and doesn't mention parental income.
You mention smoking. I think that, at least in the US, educational attainment also correlates with non-smoking. So would we make a statement about non-smoking sourced to an article about educational attainment? NightHeron (talk) 02:02, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
are we satisfied that the others are not synthesis? No. See my comment above of 12:06, 7 October. Generalrelative (talk) 23:11, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
WP:BLOCKEVASION removed. Generalrelative (talk) 23:46, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I agree, there is no reason this article should ignore the last decade of genetic research over editors who claim a piece of content is SYNTH when it clearly is not. 70.113.252.247 (talk) 23:28, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
This isn't a vote, and edit warring by new editors like this in an area that is under sanctions (as well as a very frequent target of sockpuppet edits by long term abusers of Misplaced Pages) is a terrible idea. MrOllie (talk) 23:34, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
If it is not a vote, how is consensus established then? I am sorry some abuser agrees with us that we should add this, but that is no reason for not adding it, Hitler was against smoking I believe, but that does not mean smoking is good. 70.113.252.247 (talk) 23:36, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
You can read about that at WP:CONSENSUS. This article recently came off of a 1 year protection. Since IP edit warring has resumed, I have requested that protection be restored. - MrOllie (talk) 23:38, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks MrOllie. Unfortunately it seems like that may be necessary. Generalrelative (talk) 23:48, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Could you at least explain in light of what I said in response to Generalrelative, why the content is synthesis, I am sorry but I genuinely do not understand, Generalrelative says "The other four sources you've cited appear to me to represent SYNTH because they are not about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page", but I think I have shown clearly that they are.98.153.62.223 (talk) 23:50, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
You are pretty obviously combining multiple sources to make points that no individual source makes explicitly, that is synthesis. MrOllie (talk) 23:57, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
IP 98.153.62.223: I agree with MrOllie. You simply haven't convinced me that my objections were off base. That said, I really do want to collaborate with you on this. I meant what I said on your talk page that I think you could be a very valuable contributor to this project. But there is a learning curve here. We all run into it once we start to get involved with topics we're passionately connected to. I strongly encourage you to register an account and to continue to contribute in areas relevant to your expertise. Generalrelative (talk) 00:00, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

MrOllie: Would you please state the point he is making that is not explicitly in the sources?

Generalrelative: Why is MrOllie claiming the problem is that he makes a point not in the sources, do you agree with that or do you stand by your claim that the problem is that the sources are not about the topic of this Misplaced Pages page? You made several false statements to back up that claim, 98.153.62.223 provided exact quotes were the articles discuss the topic of this Misplaced Pages page explicitly. Are you telling us not to believe our lying eyes? 72.17.88.210 (talk) 01:54, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

It's the same problem. One way to tell that synthesis is occurring is that the citations are not about the same thing. - MrOllie (talk) 02:06, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Precisely. Generalrelative (talk) 02:19, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
It is not the same problem. I take it since you did not provide an example of any points made in the content that are not explicitly in the sources, that you granted that the claims are in the sources, you just agree with Generalrelative that the problem is that the sources are not about race and intelligence. Correct? if not do provide the point you think is not in the sources. 72.17.88.210 (talk) 02:23, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
No, but have fun arguing with that straw man. MrOllie (talk) 02:25, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Give us the claim(s) not in the articles then. 72.17.88.210 (talk) 02:29, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

FYI IP 98.153.62.223 has opened up a discussion on this matter at NORN. Let's see if others feel like weighing in. Generalrelative (talk) 02:31, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

References

  1. https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2019/1/26/5262222
  2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01549-6
  3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28366442/

More illustrations?

Some illustrations I randomly found on Wikimedia Commons in the last few weeks:

1839 Samuel George Morton Crania Americana 3 Skulls
Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature (1838) (14781194905)

No replies required; maybe somebody wants to add one of these in the future. Biohistorian15 (talk) 11:35, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Bell Curve and Heritability

  • race differences in intelligence, treated from the same hereditarian standpoint as Jensen's 1969 paper

I recall the lead author of The Bell Curve saying just the opposite of that: i.e., that only half of the IQ gap is due to heredity or that it's impossible to estimate the percentage:

It seems highly likely to us that both genes and environment have something to do with racial differences. What might the mix be? We are resolutely agnostic on that issue; as far as we can determine, the evidence does not yet justify an estimate.

And

As Herrnstein and Murray concede, children from very low socio-economic status backgrounds who are adopted into high socio-economic status backgrounds have IQs dramatically higher than their parents.

Moreover, Thomas Sowell thinks it's entirely due to culture (see Black Rednecks). Uncle Ed (talk) 00:15, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

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