The article contains the line:
Average cranial capacity in Europeans is about 1362; 1380 in Asians, 1276 in Africans. It’s about 1270 in New Guinea.
What's wrong here? 4 degrees of accuracy for brain size and no error bars? That's a sign of someone being either intentionally or unintentionally dishonest.
Quick Googling shows that there's a paper published that states that European's average cranial capacities is 1347.
Rather then describing the facts as they are he paints things as more certain than they are. I think that people who do that in an area, where false beliefs lead to people being descrimited, are in no position to complain when they some social scorn.
How meaningful are figures on brain size without figures on overall body size?
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: