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Any non video critiques avilable? Videos are much harder to analyze, assess and think about.

As far as I know the fundamental points of the bell curve (of which only a small bit relates to race) are nigh-universally acknowledged by people in the relevant fields to be true.




> Any non video critiques avilable? Videos are much harder to analyze, assess and think about.

Unfortunately no. I wholeheartedly agree with you on this.

> As far as I know the fundamental points of the bell curve (of which only a small bit relates to race) are nigh-universally acknowledged by people in the relevant fields to be true.

AFAIK this is really not the case. I've seen a survey (which I can find now :/) of people working in this field and there's actually a clear division between the conservative (genetics first) group and the liberal (society is key) one.

> (of which only a small bit relates to race)

It's not that small, and when you dedicate an entire section of your book to this particular topic and you keep using mainly openly racist studies as a reference, it's unlikely to be an accident.


The Bell Curve is unrescuable from a scientific perspective, it should be thrown away.

If it is definitional to your worldview, then replace it with a scientifically sound one.




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