ArisKatsaris comments on [SEQ RERUN] Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 09 October 2011 12:45:10PM *  9 points [-]

Same way that some people can talk about the statistical correlations between e.g. IQ and race, most other people nowadays have learned to correlate instead those people who so correlate these things with evil people who want to oppress other races.

And certainly that's actually the rational thing to do. If you hear someone seek to correlate races with IQ, you ought adjust upwards the probabilty of them wanting to oppress other races. Because there is a positive correlation between people who speak about lower intelligence of blacks and evil people who so want to oppress other races.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 October 2011 02:01:31PM 5 points [-]

And certainly that's actually the rational thing to do.

No, it is a rationalization of what they happened to do.

Comment author: satt 09 October 2011 03:49:24PM 5 points [-]

I would think it's usually both.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 10 October 2011 10:08:47PM 1 point [-]

By a small amount I think it is.