Friday, June 23, 2006
Steven Pinker examines some very controversial study results: THE LESSONS OF THE ASHKENAZIM - Groups and Genes
Does this mean that Jews are a nation of meinsteins? It does not. Their average IQ has been measured at 108 to 115, one-half to one standard deviation above the mean. But statisticians have long known that a moderate difference in the means of two distributions translates into a large difference at the tails. In the simplest case, if we have two groups of the same size, and the average of Group A exceeds the average of Group B by fifteen IQ points (one standard deviation), then among people with an IQ of 115 or higher the As will outnumber the Bs by a ratio of three to one, but among people with an IQ of 160 or higher the As will outnumber the Bs by a ratio of forty-two to one. Even if Group A was a fraction of the size of Group B to begin with, it would contribute a substantial proportion of the people who had the highest scores...
Link comes to a TNR page with nothing?
Really? Hmmm...works for me. Maybe because I'm registered or something...
OK, I will risk the wrath of the TNR legal department and paste it into the forum:
http://www.solomonia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6411#6411
Although you miss some pretty interesting comments, too.