Hi,
My name is Amiee-Jade Pereira and I am an Honours student at
ECU in Western Australia. I joined your list as I'm
interested in CP and hoping to get into my Masters in CP at
ECU.
I was shocked to read this article! I thought the problems
with intelligence tests (cultural diff) were understood
by 'all' psych's. I also thought that gender differences
were understood to be very much a product of socialisation,
not just biological differences.
If I am an Honours student and understand this, what's going
on with this guy? It really concerns me that he is making
such sweeping statements that can be utilised to verify
oppression of minority groups.
But, more importantly, why is the Journal agreeing to
publish it?
Amiee-Jade Pereira
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:59:18 +0800
>From: Dawn Darlaston-Jones <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Doing It Differently - Social Perspectives and
Research in Mental Health
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Hi Paul & others
>I have not come across this person before and when I read
this piece thought
>I must have been transported to some form of parallel
universe. I think it
>is incumbent on us (I realise I am a ring-in to the UK list
being in Western
>Australia) to counter comments like this because to remain
silent is to
>condone implicitly the content of his argument. I would be
happy to put my
>name to a statement issued by the UK list and will also be
drawing this to
>the attention of the Australian community for similar
response
>Dawn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Paul@home
>Sent: 26 August 2005 03:54
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Doing It Differently - Social Perspectives and
Research in
>Mental Health
>
>Dear all,
>
>In case you hadn't heard, Richard Lynn is up to his old
tricks again. He is
>now claiming that men are cleverer than women (click on
link below to see
>the story) in an article to be published in the British
Journal of
>Psychology - the only good thing to say about this is that
at least it
>distracts him from making his claims that poor countries
are poor because
>poor people are stupid.
>
>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,574
4,16387882%255E2
>702,00.html
>
>Aside from the fact that his willingness to make such
claims disproves his
>own theory (he must be a pretty stupid fellow), do we, as a
network, wish
>for a means of issuing press releases to counter such
absurd, purile and
>punitive uses of psychology?
>
>p
>
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