No, not the Hunter Biden laptop. (I almost typed “Hunted Biden laptop,” which might soon be “breaking news,” but we’ll have to wait and see.) Rather, it’s one of the ideas that was floated shortly after Gregor Mendel discovered that fruit flies like sex: deliberately, eugenically breeding people as a way to improve us …
Category: intelligence
Aug 23 2021
Nobody Likes To Be Contradicted…
…especially by RealityTM [1] Statistician William M. Briggs has a piece up today about Why Experts Hate Racial Differences In Intelligence. It’s a good piece, but it sounds a somewhat discordant note toward the end: Experts say intelligence is the highest good, and these test scores are indicators of intelligence. See the …
Apr 08 2021
Distinctions That Fail To Matter
Anyone familiar with the fusillades over race and racial differences these past few decades will be aware that there are some subjects generally regarded as “too hot to touch.” The confrontation-averse are well advised to avoid such subjects, as those on one side are prone to hurling insults rather than reasoned arguments with evidentiary …
Apr 07 2021
When Smart People Write Dumb Things
“We’re all fools, most of our lives. It’s unavoidable.” –Jean Valjean in Les Miserables Everyone, at some point in his life, says or does something he later regrets. It’s part and parcel of human fallibility. It’s also a solid foundation for one of the Redeemer’s least-appreciated sayings: Judge not, that ye be …
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