Comments on: Scientific Racism: Gates Interviews Watson http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/06/03/scientific-racism-gates-interviews-watson/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: racismreview.com » Blog Archive » Race and Medicine http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/06/03/scientific-racism-gates-interviews-watson/comment-page-1/#comment-4859 racismreview.com » Blog Archive » Race and Medicine Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:50:16 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=306#comment-4859 [...] on the results of the sequencing of the genes of two white guys - Craig Venter and James Watson (yes, the same Watson) - to see how they metabolize six different drugs.   The results were [...] [...] on the results of the sequencing of the genes of two white guys – Craig Venter and James Watson (yes, the same Watson) – to see how they metabolize six different drugs.   The results were [...]

]]> By: Joe http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/06/03/scientific-racism-gates-interviews-watson/comment-page-1/#comment-3727 Joe Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:54:27 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=306#comment-3727 Yeah, we social scientists should get to talk a lot about DNA and ants too, right? No one ever asks us to do that. But every one (dope?) is an expert in our fields..... Yeah, we social scientists should get to talk a lot about DNA and ants too, right? No one ever asks us to do that. But every one (dope?) is an expert in our fields…..

]]> By: Jessie http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/06/03/scientific-racism-gates-interviews-watson/comment-page-1/#comment-3654 Jessie Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:28:20 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=306#comment-3654 Thanks, Joe. I'll let you know if 20/20 calls... ;-) The thing that always gets me about people like Watson is that they are called on - here by Gates who should really know better - to comment on social realities like 'race.' It's always an act of extrapolation, moving beyond their area of expertise that just reveals their ignorance about such matters and confirms the basest stereotypes. I just caught an episode of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eowilson/" rel="nofollow"> NOVA about E.O.Wilson,</a> founder of sociobiology, who makes the same error. Wilson is perfectly credible talking about ants and other insects, but then he moves to extrapolate from ants to human beings and, not surprisingly, creates works of fiction based on stereotypes. Thanks, Joe. I’ll let you know if 20/20 calls… ;-) The thing that always gets me about people like Watson is that they are called on – here by Gates who should really know better – to comment on social realities like ‘race.’ It’s always an act of extrapolation, moving beyond their area of expertise that just reveals their ignorance about such matters and confirms the basest stereotypes. I just caught an episode of NOVA about E.O.Wilson, founder of sociobiology, who makes the same error. Wilson is perfectly credible talking about ants and other insects, but then he moves to extrapolate from ants to human beings and, not surprisingly, creates works of fiction based on stereotypes.

]]> By: Joe http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/06/03/scientific-racism-gates-interviews-watson/comment-page-1/#comment-3642 Joe Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:43:56 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=306#comment-3642 Nice and thorough piece, Jessie. I wish we could get your analysis into the traditional white-controlled mass media. This is basically about how you frame the key concepts of "IQ" and "race." It is amazing that any intelligent human being would consider the superficial paper-pencil and object manipulation tests, called so grandly "IQ" tests, to be measures of something so broad as "human intelligence." Such tests only measure s VERY limited range of human skills. They are "skills tests," and calling and viewing them correctly as just that, destroys the whole "IQ" (mine is better than yours) and "race"argument. Thus, from the broader perspective, Watson must have a very low IQ:)) Nice and thorough piece, Jessie. I wish we could get your analysis into the traditional white-controlled mass media.

This is basically about how you frame the key concepts of “IQ” and “race.”

It is amazing that any intelligent human being would consider the superficial paper-pencil and object manipulation tests, called so grandly “IQ” tests, to be measures of something so broad as “human intelligence.” Such tests only measure s VERY limited range of human skills. They are “skills tests,” and calling and viewing them correctly as just that, destroys the whole “IQ” (mine is better than yours) and “race”argument. Thus, from the broader perspective, Watson must have a very low IQ:))

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