The Bell Curve | Shaun

"The Bell Curve" by Shaun
Subject of Discussion: I would like to never hear about The Bell Curve ever again. Section time codes: 6:15 Intelligence 17:18 The Bell Curve 30:03 General Intelligence 57:21 IQ Tests 1:41:15 IQ vs Environment 2:02:34 Politics Content warning: discussion of racism, ableism, misogyny, Nazi ideology Extra special thanks to Nate Frost from Portland State University and Thea for their help sourcing studies. Also extra special thanks to Olive & Kav P for all their script editing help: https://twitter.com/coherentstates https://twitter.com/RealKav_P Books: The Bell Curve (1994) The Mismeasure of Man (1981) Inequality by Design (1996) Intelligence, Genes & Success (1997) The Bell Curve Debate (1995) The Nazi Connection (1994) Articles & Studies: Lewis M. Terman: The Uses of Intelligence Tests (1916) Ned Block: How Heritability Misleads about Race (1996) Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally: Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer (2019) Zack Z. Cernovsky: On the Similarities of American Blacks and Whites: A Reply to J. P. Rushton (1995) Richard Lynn: Race differences in intelligence: A global perspective (1991) Byrnes, Rita M., Library of Congress. Federal Research Division: South Africa : a country study (1997) Mallory Wober: The meaning and stability of Raven’s Matrices test among Africans (1969) D. H. Crawford-Nutt: Are Black scores on Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices an artifact of test presentation? (1976) John C. Raven: Standardization of progressive matrices (1938) K. Owen: Test and Item Bias: The Suitability of the Junior Aptitude Tests as a Common Test Battery for White, Indian and Black Pupils in Standard 7 (1989) K. Owen: The suitability of Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices for various groups in South Africa (1992) Fred Zindi: Towards the Development of African Psychometric Tests (2013) Links: https://ift.tt/2mp2cq3 https://ift.tt/2p8VVjh https://ift.tt/2pQHAbu https://ift.tt/2jwb1eE https://ift.tt/2O14Sn0 https://ift.tt/2dw2u8L https://ift.tt/1oTIjTM https://ift.tt/2kY8eLl Picture credit (dancers): Raina Peterson & Govind Pillai; (photographer) Anandh Bala At 17:56 I say 'IQ' instead of 'g'. Whoops! Note about Zimbabwe: Rhodesia’s minority-rule government issued a declaration of independence in 1965, but Zimbabwe did not gain recognised independence until 1980.


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