Evil_inKarlate, could you please indicate whose post you are quoting when you reply? You quote comments from Ainoow’s post and my post without tagging the quotes. That kind of makes it hard for any other people to follow the thread.
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Originally Posted by Evil_inKarlate
Based on your specific wording here, yes we can. We can't say "Your IQ is 85, you must be black; your IQ is 110, you must be Asian; etc." which would indicate a distinguishing characteristic. That doesn't mean there cannot be general correlations, however.
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I don’t follow your argument here, EI.
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Originally Posted by Evil_inKarlate
Actually, he repudiated the inference that many people took umbrage with. Look at all his recent quotes on the matter, and none of them conflict with "The black race's IQs follow a bell curve distribution with a mean of 95; Whites' IQs follow a similar normal distribution with a mean of 105." (Quote and specific numbers made up by me.) Some people took this to mean all whites are smarter than all blacks, or "Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior," which is not only not what he said but obviously false to any reasonable person.
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Actually, I thought his apology did not exactly address the comments or inferences that people took umbrage with. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was still contrite over his comments, even though he was incorrectly paraphrasing his comments and the objections they had provoked. Reading your post, though, it appears that my first instincts that he merely evaded the controversy by resorting to a straw man line of defence , were right.
Do you have a link for any comments he has made on the bell curve IQ distribution of different racial groups?
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Originally Posted by Evil_inKarlate
Yes, even I agree with that, despite seeming to be the only one on Watson's side.
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What do you agree or disagree with about Watson's views?
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