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How heritability misleads about race

CognitionPublished 1 August 1995
Ned Block
Citations306
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.69
SNIP1.55

TL;DR

The Bell Curve revives and elaborates an argument given by Jensen to the effect that facts about heritability of IQ in whites dictate that blacks are genetically inferior in IQ, but clarification of the concept of heritability shows that this reasoning is fallacious.

Abstract

The Bell Curve revives and elaborates an argument given by Jensen to the effect that facts about heritability of IQ in whites dictate that blacks are genetically inferior in IQ. But clarification of the concept of heritability shows that this reasoning is fallacious. Heritability is an uninteresting measure that only misleads us about race.

Keywords

Psychology