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Comment author: [deleted] 30 October 2012 01:16:03PM *  5 points [-]

It might be people genuinely don't understand how heritable things like IQ are. Our culture very much tries to downplay it.

Also it seems pretty obvious that only a tiny fraction of single mothers use sperm donors anyway, I would argue the majority of them ideally also want to maintain a relationship with the father or didn't plan to have a child at all.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 30 October 2012 10:51:18PM 3 points [-]

In an article reviewing Flynn's new book "Are We Getting Smarter?", the author basically made it an article of faith that race, gender, and even nations have no difference in IQ based in genetics.

Despite its flaws, there is a deeper, almost humanitarian, purpose driving Are We Getting Smarter? It urges us—researcher and layperson alike—to take the veiled bigotry of absolute genetic differences among races, genders, and nations off the table.

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/are-we-getting-smarter-rising-IQs-james-flynn#

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