Comments on: Watson Racist http://www.ipatrix.com/2218/watson-racist/ Crossing Borders Crossing Cultures Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:20:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Prasenjeethttp://www.ipatrix.com/2218/watson-racist/#comment-11850 Prasenjeet Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:58:24 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/watson-racist/#comment-11850 I'm not sure about his other pronouncements but you might find the following links interesting re his IQ-vs-race comments: http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php and http://www.slate.com/id/2178122/entry/2178123/nav/ais/ I think Watson was mistaken when he suggested that development policy ought to account for IQ differences (there are lots of public policy rationales for that, not to mention the fact that IQ is a very dodgy measure of smarts anyway) but I think you and the other posters ought to acknowledge he wasn't just making stuff up because he is racist. I’m not sure about his other pronouncements but you might find the following links interesting re his IQ-vs-race comments:

http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
and http://www.slate.com/id/2178122/entry/2178123/nav/ais/

I think Watson was mistaken when he suggested that development policy ought to account for IQ differences (there are lots of public policy rationales for that, not to mention the fact that IQ is a very dodgy measure of smarts anyway) but I think you and the other posters ought to acknowledge he wasn’t just making stuff up because he is racist.

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