1/10/06

Liberal IQ tests

Atrios misses Yglesias' point. Atrios writes:

But I don't know these fantasy liberals who don't think that IQ tests don't measure anything. They measure something, certainly, and something we associate with "intelligence," no matter how imperfect a measure of a complicated thing they may be.

What liberals generally don't think is that IQ tests generally and the AFQT score specifically are a measure of "innate" intelligence, and certainly not a measure of genetically-drive-only-innate intelligence.


Yglesias didn't say that at all. In the paragraph Atrios himself quotes, Ygelsias makes no claim about what the liberals actually think. He says that, in the realm of political argument, "most liberals prefer to shy away from the topic." No obviously, Atrios does not prefer to shy away from the topic, but he isn't addressing Ygesias' point.

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