'Intelligence' and Race (was Re: Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics)

Justin Schwartz jschwart at freenet.columbus.oh.us
Mon Jun 1 19:35:13 PDT 1998


On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, C. Petersen wrote:


> In his book, Arthur Jensen said that he found that myopia of the eye, and
> headsize are both 'g-loaded' factors, and are correlated with increased
> intelligence.

I'd believe it about myopia, but the causal direction is obviously reversed. People wo read a lot do better on IQ tests, and reading a lot causes myopia.

--jks



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