Alan Trulove wrote;
> The above world-wide researchers are certainly investigating other
>"Behavioral Genetic" factors - see Plomin. Criminality, etc. (Although not
>much specifically racial so far ..) We shall have to wait a couplr pf
>years and see. So the writings of Rushton, Lynn, Chis Brand .. are indeed
>entertaining to any open-minded professional.
>
Any open-minded professional would join with Professor Leon Kamin's
assessment that; 'Lynn's distortions and misrepresentations of the data
constitute a truly venomous racism, combined with scandalous disregard
for scientific objectivity.'
Details of Lynn's fraudulent methods were published in Scientific American
see http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam1.htm
But here is a brief taster (from Kamin's review);
The remaining studies cited by Lynn, and accepted as valid by Herrnstein
and Murray, tell us little about African intelligence but do tell us
something about Lynn's scholarship. One of the 11 entries in Lynn's
table of the intelligence of "pure Negroids" indicates that 1,011
Zambians who were given the Progressive Matrices had a lamentably low
average IQ of 75. The source for this quantitative claim is given as
"Pons 1974; Crawford-Nutt 1976."
A. L. Pons did test 1,011 Zambian copper miners, whose average number of
correct responses was 34. Pons reported on this work orally; his data
were summarized in tabular form in a paper by D. H. Crawford-Nutt. Lynn
took the Pons data from Crawford-Nutt's paper and converted the number
of correct responses into a bogus average "IQ" of 75. Lynn chose to
ignore the substance of Crawford-Nutt's paper, which reported that 228
black high school students in Soweto scored an average of 45 correct
responses on the Matrices--HIGHER than the mean of 44 achieved by the
same-age white sample on whom the test's norms had been established and
well above the mean of Owen's coloured pupils.
--
Dave Gordon
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
University of Bristol
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Bristol BS8 1TZ, UK
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