Resolute ignorance on race and Rushton
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0191-8869/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.021 ⇑ Tel.: +1 302 831 1650; fax: +1 302 831 6058. E-mail address: [email protected] I review Rushton’s research on the evolutionary divergence of the three major human lineages. His lifehistory theory predicts, and his multiple analyses document, a consistent three-way patterning of mean differences among blacks, whites, and East Asians on coevolved sets of morphological, physiological, developmental, psychological, and behavioral traits. I then analyze a typical example of how critics evaluate his work, including the rate at which they cast his scientific hypotheses, methods and conclusions in politically charged language. The set of articles in question, although authored by well-known academics and appearing in a major, peer-reviewed journal, illustrate how mob science works to ‘‘discredit’’ valid research and enforce collective ignorance about entire bodies of evidence. Rushton is a scholar and gentleman but it appears that his critics often act like neither. 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Cross-cultural evaluation of predicted associations between race and behavior
Rushton argues that much variation in human behavior is explained by membership in one of only three genetic groups or ‘‘races’’ (‘‘Negroids,’’ ‘‘Caucasoids,’’ and ‘‘Mongoloids’’). Using previously coded data on the 186 society Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, we find no statistical support for the predicted associations between ‘‘race’’ and behavior. D 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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