Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

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The theories of Arthur Jensen, a (now deceased) proponent of eugenics via IQ testing have been used argue against the establishment of welfare programs and affirmative action.

Charles Murray, the surviving author of The Bell Curve is still rattling around pushing for segregated education in order to form a “cognitive elite”.

Former prime minister of the UK Boris Johnson is a proud proponent of IQ based eugenics.

As were the people that informed his policies.

During the COVID-19 lockdown, they took advantage of cancelled exams to redistribute grading so that people in poorer areas where given lower marks in an attempt to cut the working class from further education.

You can’t claim this stuff is in the past when it’s still being used by neoliberals to inform policy.

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The framework behind IQ has not changed since its racist beginnings, until those can be addressed any not racist benefits are merely a byproduct of an attempt to maintain a tool used legitimise racialised hierarchies.

Genetics on the other hand has discarded the racist theories that spawned it.

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