Paper: James Watson’s most inconvenient truth - race realism and the moralistic fallacy


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J.P. Rushton & A.R. Jensen, 2008. James Watson’s most inconvenient truth: race realism and the moralistic fallacy. Medical Hypotheses 71(5):629-640.

ABSTRACT. Recent editorials in this journal have defended the right of eminent biologist James Watson to raise the unpopular hypothesis that people of sub-Saharan African descent score lower, on average, than people of European or East Asian descent on tests of general intelligence. As those editorials imply, the scientific evidence is substantial in showing a genetic contribution to these differences. The unjustified ill treatment meted out to Watson therefore requires setting the record straight about the current state of the evidence on intelligence, race, and genetics.

In this paper, we summarize our own previous reviews based on 10 categories of evidence: The worldwide distribution of test scores; the g factor of mental ability; heritability differences; brain size differences; trans-racial adoption studies; racial admixture studies; regression-to- the-mean effects; related life-history traits; human origins research; and the poverty of predictions from culture-only explanations. The preponderance of evidence demonstrates that in intelligence, brain size, and other life-history variables, East Asians average a higher IQ and larger brain than Europeans who average a higher IQ and larger brain than Africans. Further, these group differences are 50–80% heritable. These are facts, not opinions and science must be governed by data. There is no place for the “moralistic fallacy” that reality must conform to our social, political, or ethical desires.

Article Outline
Introduction
Black–White IQ differences are found worldwide
Race differences are most pronounced on the more g-loaded components of tests
The gene–environment architecture of IQ is the same in all races
Brain size differences
Trans-racial adoption studies
Racial admixture studies
Blacks and Whites regress toward their predicted (and different) means
The riddle of the three-way pattern of race differences
Race differences and human origins research
Culture-only theory hypotheses fail to account for the race–IQ differences
Wanted: More race realism, less moralistic fallacy
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2 Responses to “Paper: James Watson’s most inconvenient truth - race realism and the moralistic fallacy”


  1. 1 ggf

    Hasn’t Rome changed alot in the past 2,000 years?

  2. 2 Friedrich Braun

    …many would say for the worse…

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