RE: Race and IQs
May 31, 2018 at 9:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2018 at 9:46 pm by Angrboda.)
(May 31, 2018 at 9:31 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(May 31, 2018 at 9:26 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: You're only proving my point, Huggy. Which position of the OP am I being asked about?
About IQ as it relates to race.
What about IQ as it relates to race? Are you asking if I think there are inherent differences in intelligence between the races? If so, my answer is I don't know. I'm inclined to be skeptical of the claim that there are inherent differences in intelligence, but not having studied the subject in any depth, I must acknowledge that my opinion is not an informed one. If you're asking me if I think there are measurable differences between the intelligence of different races, that's a different question, but one to which I again must answer that I don't know, though I would be more hesitant to jump to conclusions about the latter rather than the former.
(May 31, 2018 at 9:31 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Also do you accept research that hasn't been peer reviewed as scientific?
You're getting rather abstruse here. If you're asking me whether I believe that a book reporting scientific results has to be peer reviewed to be valid, then no I don't think so. That simply doesn't follow. Would I have greater confidence in the research if it was peer reviewed? That's a different question, which I would probably answer in the affirmative. By itself, I don't find the lack of peer review necessarily damning. Apparently they're getting plenty of peer review post publication, so I'm not sure it matters.