Friday, June 16, 2006

Steven Pinker on the Cochran-Hardy-Harpending hypothesis   posted by Darth Quixote @ 6/16/2006 09:44:00 PM
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Steve Sailer has a link to a piece by Steven Pinker on the Cochran-Hardy-Harpending hypothesis regarding the high mean IQ of the Ashkenazi Jews, to be published in The New Republic.

The closing words:


[T]he power to uncover genetic and evolutionary roots of group differences in psychological traits is both more likely to materialize and more incendiary in its consequences. And it is a prospect that we are, intellectually and emotionally, very poorly equipped to confront.


There is at least one typo in the piece that got past the TNR fact checkers. Those readers who were once newbies, let's see if you can spot it.