Uh oh, I just noticed that there were a ton of comments on the site that needed to be approved. My old blogging site didn’t work that way, I apologize. I appreciate the comments very much….
I recently obtained a copy of David Wechsler’s 1935, “The Range of Human Capacities.” To my delight, Chapter 2, “The Measurement of Human Capacities” is an extended analysis of the concept of capacity as applied to intelligence. In fact I disagree with his conclusion, and I…
Here is a very non-controversial way to frame the IQ Debate: at any given moment, some people have better cognitive functioning than others. That much is obvious, isn’t it? Some people can spell better, some people can do more complicated math problems, some people have…
My great mentor Irv Gottesman passed away recently. I was in Europe at the time and was unable to be at his memorial in Minnesota. Here is something I wrote about him to be read in my absence. It is more personal than professional. Hopefully…
Haven’t blogged in a long time. As of a couple of months from now I will be under some contractual obligation to blog, so I guess I had better get started. First of all, the location of the blog has moved to the Genetics and Human…
I recently had the opportunity to contribute a blog at Cato Unbound in reply to an essay by James Flynn, summarizing his new book. I am an admirer of Flynn’s work and found little to argue with in the original part of the blog. Perhaps…
Elliot Tucker-Drob and Tim Bates have published a meta-analysis [fire-walled] of the Scarr-Rowe effect, the observation that the heritability of intelligence is lower in impoverished families. The reaction to the analysis has been a little strange. I read the meta-analysis as broadly supportive of the existence of…
So referring again to Callie Burt’s post, here, while failing to adhere to my own strictures about being brief. I see two major issues. First, whether the BG side of the debate is being defensive in taking issue with bringing an end to “heritability studies,” or…
