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Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 12:56:09AM *  8 points [-]

You're wrong.

That flat and unconditional statement seems to be mismatched with your sentence a bit later:

Frankly, most of this goes over my head.

Given that you say you lack the capability to "assess it intelligently on my own" and given that I don't see the basis on which you decide I am statistically incompetent, I am rather curious why did you decide that I am wrong. Especially given that I was talking about my personal conclusions and not stating a falsifiable fact about reality.

P.S. Oh, and the bit about consequences for career? Try Blits, Jan H. The silenced partner: Linda Gottfredson and the University of Delaware

Comment author: fubarobfusco 09 January 2014 02:11:19AM *  0 points [-]

That's a locked-up paper printed in a journal operated by a political advocacy group.

Linda Gottfredson doesn't seem to have been "silenced", though. (But I have a libertarian, rather than a left/right partisan, view on that concept. Someone who takes grants from wealthy ideological supporters instead of from government institutions is not thereby silenced; on the contrary, that would seem pretty darn liberating.)

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 02:18:56AM 7 points [-]

The "Look Inside" button will give you the first two pages. I am not sure why the publisher of the journal is relevant unless you're going to claim the paper is an outright lie.