What I'm missing in this discussion is a skeptical attitude towards the pseudoscience of measuring IQ. Any takers? Ax....
Andreas Jonson
andreas.jonson@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:38 am
35388
... The hatred of Franklin Roosevelt among the amazingly conservative American populace (a fierce but substantial minority) has only been matched by the hatred...
Jack Kolb
kolb@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:56 am
35389
... So how do you classify people who had no other motives and considerations but their own business interest, destroying other peoples and environments in...
Durant
durant@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:58 am
35390
Oklahoma's Divisive Disclaimer on Evolution By Lois Romano Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 1, 1999 ; A3 TULSA, Nov. 30 Oklahoma Gov. Frank...
wsmith1@...
Dec 1, 1999 1:55 pm
35391
... They had the choice of selling computers with Windows, selling computers without Windows (and taking their chances in competing with the OS that everyone,...
Thomas L. Knapp
tlknapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 1:59 pm
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... And if you wish to name the time and place where I said that the market was any such thing, you are welcome to do so. If you don't care to, then don't put...
Thomas L. Knapp
tlknapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:23 pm
35393
Does anyone things that, if I were to apologize profusely for ever setting foot in the libertarian threads, and perform some act of contrition, we could move...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:29 pm
35394
... It's been mentioned a couple of times. While it seems perfectly obvious that there is something called "intelligence" which one should be able to measure,...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:34 pm
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Scott White said in Re: bastinado-politics the flag! at 01/Dec/1999 01:10:34. ... Most libertarians, myself included, are extremely skeptical when it comes to...
Thomas L. Knapp
tlknapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:35 pm
35396
"In 'The River', Edward Hooper suggests that an experimental oral polio vaccine might have been made with chimpanzee tissue contaminated with an ancestor of...
Hans Havermann
haver@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:16 pm
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Scott White said in Not an OS question (was Ayn Rand, Microsoft) at 01/Dec/1999 00:33:40. ... I will answer your question, but first I must protest. I am *not*...
Thomas L. Knapp
tlknapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:17 pm
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Andreas Jonson said in RE: The Pseudoscience of Racism at 01/Dec/1999 05:40:50. ... I think it's less "pseudoscience" than "not very advanced science." The ...
Thomas L. Knapp
tlknapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:18 pm
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James Redekop said in Drowning in threads at 01/Dec/1999 09:29:52. ... I *would* like to see the discussion become a little more sane. I really anticipated...
Thomas L. Knapp
tlknapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:20 pm
35400
... This is a totally discredited idea ... and has been discredited for many years .... I direct you to http://www.quackwatch.com for further details. John...
John Stone
jstone@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:21 pm
35401
... The problem is that it is completely irrelevant to the list. This is a pseudoscience & paranormal list, not a political list. ...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:24 pm
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"Thomas L. Knapp" wrote: ... ... Not by me. If I wanted to read an e-mail discussion about libertarian ideology, I'd join a libertarian e-mail list. Hoping...
Benedict Adamson
badamson@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:47 pm
35403
James Redekop said in Re: Drowning in threads at 01/Dec/1999 10:26:11. ... Libertarianism, especially the variety springing from Ayn Rand and Objectivism,...
Thomas L. Knapp
tlknapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:03 pm
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... Sure, but they're specifically excluded from the list charter because the list is supposed to concentrate on the paranormal and quackery, etc. ... Yeah,...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:16 pm
35405
... Right now, the "pseudoscience of racism" thread is the only one going which is marginally on topic. I think that's sad. Dean A. Batha Los Angeles, CA ...
Dean A. Batha
dabatha@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:19 pm
35406
... It seems to me that IQ is pseudoscientific in much the same way as polygraphs are. It's based on the belief that traits such as intelligence and honesty...
Dean A. Batha
dabatha@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:20 pm
35407
... Comparing IQ to polygraph is just silly. The polygraph doesn't measure honesty as a human trait which IQ arguably has been portrayed to be. It measures...
Paul Bernhardt
pbern10@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:31 pm
35408
James Redekop <tzoq@...> ... Is it? I wonder if this is just another of those things that has come to be widely accepted, but without having been...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Dec 1, 1999 5:15 pm
35409
... That's precisely the problem. What does it mean to "lie?" If a polygraph is used to screen prospective employees or to look for evidence against employees...
Dean A. Batha
dabatha@...
Dec 1, 1999 5:28 pm
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... You're on the right track, Dave, but I'd like to say it this way: It _has_ been examined, and it has turned out to be rubbish. It's a red herring that has...
The Textbook League
textbook@...
Dec 1, 1999 5:50 pm
35411
... And more, that they can be objectively and accurately measured with on a one-dimensional scale. Even if intelligence can be quantified, it is way too...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Dec 1, 1999 6:03 pm
35412
... You're right, I botched that statement: what I was thinking of was the tests cited so often in works such as The Bell Curve or Prof. Rushton's stuff at...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Dec 1, 1999 6:12 pm
35413
... Thank you. The site mentions: "Several individuals and groups have claimed that the U.S. Army, the Central Intelligence Agency, the World Health...
Hans Havermann
haver@...
Dec 1, 1999 6:57 pm
35414
I have seen the figure of "20 percent " of the female population reporting sexual abuse as children, most recently in SLATE's Today's Papers this past Sunday,...
Stuart323@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:14 pm
35415
... Hans ...take notice that the one group that hasn't made this claim is the scientific (microbiology/medical) community....
John Stone
jstone@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:47 pm
35416
... on my part, I attempt to avoid shouting matches, and do my best to present analysed historical events as the base of my political arguments. The problem...
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