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Michael's avatar

This article really has it all, from overuse of the adjective "far-right," scurrilous references to Jim Crow and of course Nazi Germany, uses of the passive voice ("in many cases to be met with swift condemnation" -- designed to mean "as everyone knows"), needlessly confrontational discrediting adjectives and verbs, strawmen ("No matter how hard people try, however, race cannot be reduced to the results of an IQ test"), and non sequiturs ("but intelligence is not like height"). It's as if they prompted AI (albeit probably a more sophisticated one than exists at the moment) to write an article containing all of the normal MSM tropes when writing about those they disagree with.

How about this: "but even if you add them all together they predict only a small fraction of someone’s IQ score." Small fraction being a mere 15%? I.e., the average difference between the mean white IQ and the mean black IQ?

At least they asked you for comment.

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SkilledTradesman's avatar

I notice The Atlantic actually asked Steve for comments on their story. They quoted Steve. That's a major shift in style at Atlantic.

Protestations aside, they did let some facts slip through. That's not nothing

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