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To-do list for Richard Lynn: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-06-20 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : *Tidy up the raw external link referencing Expand : *Need more 'biographical' information (aside from his work, that is); cite for date of leaving editorial board of the journal Personality and Individual Differences

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A source important for editing this article.

http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2010d.pdf

"Raven's test performance of sub-Saharan Africans: Average performance, psychometric properties, and the Flynn Effect"

Not an "average," but a "range"

In this sentence, "Ashkenazi Jews average 107–115 in the US and Britain due to their better performance in verbal and reasoning tests even though they performed lower in visual and spatial ability tests, but those in Israel average lower", "average" is a misnomer: the average is "111." Or correct to read, "Ashkenazi Jews average 107 and 115 in the US and Britain, respectively, due to their better performance in verbal and reasoning tests even though they performed lower in visual and spatial ability tests, but those in Israel average lower." if that is what you are saying. (From "Race and national differences in intelligence".) Autodidact1 (talk) 04:51, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Incomplete sentence

Please complete this sentence: "He also believes that socioeconomic status." (From "Dysgenics and eugenics".) Autodidact1 (talk) 05:06, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Book review to cite here

Intelligence Volume 35, Issue 1, January-February 2007, Pages 94-96 doi:10.1016/j.intell.2006.08.001 Book review Race differences in intelligence: An evolutionary hypothesis. N.J. Mackintosh

Lynn also wrote a 1979 paper finding that Irish children had an average IQ of 93, which he attributed to Irish kids learning the Irish language which he suggested lowered their English verbal/language scores. For those who don't know, Lynn is a Unionist (protestant) at the University of Ulster, in a notoriously Unionist and anti-Catholic town, Colraine. So, he's from a community culturally hostile to (Catholic) Irish/Gaelic culture. Catholic schools in Northern Ireland teach Irish. Protestant schools don't. Funny how Lynn finds cultural reasons for Irish to have a low IQ, but genetic reasons for racial differences in IQ. - Anonymous Poster.

Further reading

• Stone, Linda; Lurquin, Paul F.; Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca (2007). Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis. Malden (Massachusetts): Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-5089-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |laydate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)
• Tucker, William H. (2007). The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07463-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |laydate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)

Collection of sources

• Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press. p. 272. Just as Grant and many other earlier eugenicists were, Lynn is xenophobic and fears human variety, change and multiculturalism; this cultural heritage has colored his worldview for forty years. Lynn is the perfect Pioneer fund grant recipient and leader. He does very little science, and the ´science´ he does is extremely poor. However, he is extremely prolific and spreads racist themes backed by a false an ill-begotten reputation of academic respectability.
• Eric Alterman (2003). What Liberal Media. Basic Books. (quotes Kamin's description of Lynn, and critiques his relations to MQ and Pioneer, p. 101)
• Gross, Richard (2014). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour 7th Edition. (Under the heading "the political and racist nature of IQ tests" quotes Sweet 2004 saying "Go to the website of Richard Lynn"..."and you will find reams of racist pseudoscience".)
• Celia Roberts (2007). Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism. Cambridge University Press. p. 134. Thus Lynn enlists hormones to reproduce the well-worn racist argument that blac men are lower forms of life than white men, while simultaneously positioning Asian men as less masculine than white men.
• Hugh Coolican (2014). Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology. Psychology Press. p. 281. (gives the relation between Lynn, MQ and the pioneer fund as an example of ethically problematic research practices, cautioning the reader to consider not publishing in venues that are connected to Lynn or the Pioneer fund)
• Wilson, Carter A. (1996). Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism. SAGE. p. 229. At best Lynn's approach is racial propaganda or biased research driven by a strong prejudice against blacks and a strong need to believe in their genetic inferiority. At worst, Lynn's research arises out of a malicious and dishonest effort to demonstrate the genetic inferiority of blacks
• Kamin, Leon. "Behind the Bell Curve" (PDF). Scientific American: 100. Lynn's distortions and misrepresentations of the data constitute a truly venomous racism, combined with the scandalous disregard for scientific objectivity
• Valone, David A. (2002). "Richard Lynn: Eugenics: A Reassessment, review". Isis. 93 (3): 534. doi:10.1086/374143.
• Barnett, Susan M.; Williams, Wendy (2004). "National Intelligence and The Emperor's New Clothes". PsycCRITIQUES. 49 (4): 389–396. doi:10.1037/004367. Among this book's strengths are that it argues for a point of view unpopular within the scientific community, it relies on hard data to make its points, its organization and clarity. Also, the book is expansive in its thinking and argumentation. All of these strengths considered, however, we believe that the arguments advanced in the book are flawed by an omnipresent logical fallacy and confusion of correlation with causation that undermines the foundation of the book.
• Valencia, Richard R. (2010). Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice. Routledge. pp. 56=61.
• Richards, Graham (2004). Race, Racism and Psychology: Towards a Reflexive History. Routledge. p. 280.
• Ferber, Abby L. (2012). Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism. Routledge.
• Neisser, Ulric (2004). "Serious Scientists or Disgusting Racists?". PsycCRITIQUES. 49 (1): 5–7. doi:10.1037/004224.
• Gelb, Steven A. (1997). Heart of Darkness: The Discreet Charm of the Hereditarian Psychologist. Vol. 19. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
• Kenny, M. G. (2002). "Toward a racial abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, and the origins of The Pioneer Fund". J. Hist. Behav. Sci. 38: 259–283. doi:10.1002/jhbs.10063.
• Mehler, Barry (1989). "Foundation for fascism: The new eugenics movement in the United States". Patterns of Prejudice. 23 (4).
• Newby, Robert G.; Newby, Diane E. (1995). "The Bell Curve: Another Chapter in the Continuing Political Economy of Racism". American Behavioral Scientist. 39 (1): 12–24. doi:10.1177/0002764295039001003.

Fair warning

Editors of this article are given fair warning that User:Captain Occam is a creationist who was site-banned by ArbCom due to his editing in the "race & intelligence" topic area, bur has been inexplicably released from his site ban by the Committee after an appeal. It has been suggested on this thread that Occam may be interested in "correcting" this article, however, despite he un-site-banning, he ramains undere a topic band for the "race & inelligence" topic area, broadly construced, and any editingt on his part of this article would therefore be a violation of his sanctions and should be reported to Arb Com. Captain Occam is a POV warrior whoae editing must be closely monitored at all times, in all contexts, for bias. for bias. Beyond My Ken (talk) 14:46, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

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