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Sunday, September 4, 2005 - 3:15pmSanction this postReply
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I have been doing some research on the biological/genetic influences and evolutional psychology of human thinking and I came across this essay by Charles Murray, a co-author of The Bell Curve.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12002015_1

While I am more interested in whether or not there are innate differences in humans, in what we think, this article is more directed towards IQ. Nevertheless, I believe it is worthy of discussion.

BTW, there is also a rather less than flattering article on Ayn Rand included in this issue.


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The article closes with a recommendation for true individualism:

"Any university or employer that genuinely applied a single set of standards for hiring, firing, admitting, and promoting would find that performance across different groups really is distributed indistinguishably."

Intellectual individualism is difficult.  Thinking clearly about a person is not the same thing as thinking about people




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