Pinker on Jews and intelligence
Good summary here of a Steven Pinker lecture on whether Ashkenazi Jews have a hereditary advantage in intelligence.
I know Pinker is very careful to always preface all his comments about race and IQ heredity with “racism is wrong but…”, but I do worry what racial supremacists will do with this kind of research. Will “he’s Jewish” or “she’s Asian” become a shortcut substitute for “he’s smart”?
December 6th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
[…] I haven’t read The Blank Slate, but from what I’ve heard, it “progresses” even further in the same direction. Now he’s giving lectures about Jewish intellectual superiority. I understand that in every case, he’s careful to point out that racism is wrong, but still, I wonder why he’s now devoting so much time to those differences he once dismissed as insignificant. […]