[USConstitutionBuff]

"Properly done, such research should show that skull shape and brain size really do have no impact on general intelligence."

There is a correlation between size of the brain and intelligence, but if you think correlation is causality you can have Andre the Giant for your academic decathlon, and I'll take the small skulled Steven Hawking. And once again I reiterate, there is no real payoff in doing this type of work. Even if you discover a high correlation between some skull feature and high intelligence how do you use this data to profit anyone?

[Question_Assumptions]

I can imagine a whole host of ways it could help, from finally silencing racists to figuring out how to improve intelligence. Don't you think that understanding how and why brains develop and work the way that they do is useful? Bear in mind that some people object to studying even that, on the grounds that the data might be sliced along race and used for racist purposes.