Send These Racist Shrinks Back to the Asylum

I was surfing the internet and I found a “statement” about intelligence by so-called “mainstream scientists.”

Among other things, they say:

“Intelligence, so defined, can be measured, and intelligence tests measure it well. They are among the most accurate (in technical terms, reliable and valid) of all psychological tests and assessments.”

“Intelligence tests are not culturally biased against American blacks or other native-born, English-speaking peoples in the U.S.”

“The spread of people along the IQ continuum, from low to high, can be represented well by the BELL CURVE”

“The BELL CURVE for whites is centered roughly around IQ 100; the BELL CURVE for American blacks roughly around 85”

“Racial-ethnic differences are somewhat smaller but still substantial for individuals from the same socioeconomic backgrounds. To illustrate, black students from prosperous families tend to score higher in IQ than blacks from poor families, but they score no higher, on average, than whites from poor families.”

It’s outrageous that a bunch of racist fucks should try to pass themselves off as “mainstream.” And it’s equally outrageous that anyone funds these jerks. Go back to your KKK meeting and leave us alone.

Link, please.

Yeah. I’d be curious as to who has assigned them the label “mainstream”? Anyone can throw up a web site.

A google search for “mainstream” and “intelligence” turned up the following link:

http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/support-bell-curve.html

Apparently it appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

Hopefully, the folks who signed it have had their tenure revoked by now :rolleyes:

(Although I do note that one of the signers is our old friend Rushton, who clearly has an agenda, to say the least)

1994?

It would be interesting to discover how many of those people besides Jensen and Rushton would be willing to sign the same document, now that The Bell Curve has actually been subjected to peer review (and found wanting in a number of areas).

sjgouldrocks, if that was your reference, I wouldn’t get too worked up about it unless you found a much more recent statement.

Raymond Cattell, eugenicist and cultural evaluator:

From this site.
Here is our good friend Rushton, also from the above site on this page:

Talk about your agenda type scientists.

Here’s what scientists and persons without an agenda have to say
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/tests1106/index.html

http://vector.cshl.org/eugenics/

See the “Flaws in Research” page. It seems these guys have taken flaws 2, 3 and 4 as their personal mantra.

From Frontline on The Black-White Test Score Gap

From here at the University of Wiscons-Madison on our other friend Richard Lynn.

I can go on and on. Perhaps when I get home from work I will.

Biggirl . . . all I can say is wow!