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Thread #105580   Message #2174172
Posted By: Bill D
18-Oct-07 - 11:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Racism of top scientist?
Subject: RE: BS: Racism of top scientist?
such strong language! It is as dangerous to apply caustic comments to Watson's ideas as it is for him to carfelessly toss out assertions like that.
Watson obviously believes what he says...on several topics. He is, himself, educated & intelligent...yet has allowed himself to draw almost silly conclusions from 'data.

Of COURSE 'tests' show some cultures and ethnic groups to have lower scores on IQ tests....but this in no way proves why. If he is the scientist he thinks he is, he'd need to have something more than reports from "...people who have to deal with black employees."

People will believe him, though, just as they believed Hitler and others, so it is up to those in the scientific community who KNOW how to answer him should do so...clearly and carefully, not with epithets like 'disgusting'. It is a serious claim, and should be either proved...or resoundingly disproved!

It is easy to begin. If Watson can refer to "...people who have to deal with black employees", I can refer to the black PHDs in math, physics, astronomy etc., who have shown that intelligence is not reserved to Watson's race ethnic group. (There IS only one 'race').

If Watson thinks he can design tests that support claims like that, he should say so, or shut up.

There ARE some physical attributes that are associated with different groups, due to evolution...and yeah, 'most' white men CAN'T jump as high....and there are sound reasons why, just as sickle cell anemia is a disease of mostly black men.

here is one page which attempts to look at the issue....I wonder if Watson has read it.