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I am the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University and have served as a RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research and a faculty member in the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. I am a co-director of Bright Line Watch. Previously, I contributed to The Upshot at The New York Times, served as a media critic for Columbia Journalism Review, co-edited Spinsanity, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin, and co-authored All the President's Spin. For more, see my Dartmouth website.
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Fascinating article about transparancy in science. In the Case Ctudy, a comparison of IQs in different regions was criticized because:
1. computations of geographic distance used Pythagoras’ theorem and so the paper assumed that the earth is flat
2. assumption that ancestors of indigenous populations traveled direct routes.
3. assumption that the IQ of current-day Australians, North Americans, and South Americans is representative of that of the genetically unrelated indigenous populations that inhabited these continents 10,000 years ago.
Another problem with the study IMHO is the basic assumption that IQ measures something purely genetic. Various immigrant groups in America have had dramatic changes in their average IQ over time. These results prove that culture has a substantial effect on whatever it is that IQ tests measure.
Posted by: David in Cal | April 13, 2012 at 12:30 AM