Thursday, July 01, 2021

Charles Murray's Two Uncomfortable Truths and His Not Bad Advice - Rasmussen Reports

Charles Murray's Two Uncomfortable Truths and His Not Bad Advice - Rasmussen Reports
"Give Charles Murray, longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, credit for courage. 
Again and again, despite outrageously unfair attacks, he has returned to the public arena and persisted in telling unwelcome truths. 
...It will be interesting to see whether there is a similar reaction to his latest and much shorter book, "Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America."

  • His first truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different means and distributions of cognitive abilities." Murray makes mincemeat of arguments against IQ tests and shows that they're highly correlated with achievement in schools and in later life. Asians have the highest average scores, followed by Whites, Latinos and Blacks.
  • Murray's second truth is that "American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different rates of violent crime."...Read all.

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