long post on the heritability of IQ, which is better, but still clearly slanted ideologically
OK, I'll bite. Can you point to specific parts of that post which are in error owing to ideologically motivated thinking?
Morendil:
Can you point to specific parts of that post which are in error owing to ideologically motivated thinking?
A piece of writing biased for ideological reasons doesn't even have to have any specific parts that can be shown to be in error per se. Enormous edifices of propaganda can be constructed -- and have been constructed many times in history -- based solely on the selection and arrangement of the presented facts and claims, which can all be technically true by themselves.
In areas that arouse strong ideological passions, all sorts of surveys a...
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