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21 Post author: Apprentice 06 January 2014 12:16AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 07 January 2014 06:36:33AM 9 points [-]

Quite a number of people pooh pooh the reliability of IQ tests, most usually people in dogmatic denial about HBD. Are they also horrible people for their "lazy statistical discrimination"?

Comment author: Prismattic 07 January 2014 08:26:16AM -2 points [-]

Your comment is basically a non sequitor boo light, unless there is some obscure second meaning to the term "statistical discrimination" with which I am unfamiliar.

In any case, IQ tests can be less-than-perfect measures of intelligence and still be far more reliable than the evidence on which the reactionaries are relying.