timtyler comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 22 September 2009 10:58:45PM 4 points [-]

|The lower average test scores of Africans is surely an undisputed scientific fact.

Yes, but most interpreted him to be claiming that their genes prevented them from attaining equal test scores. This is definitely disputed.

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/494.html http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/495.html http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/flynn-beyond/

Comment author: timtyler 23 September 2009 07:57:47AM 2 points [-]

It was Watson - not those with reading comprehension problems among his audience - who wound up out of a job.