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To: sphinx

That certainly was the case in the appalling reviews of the Bell Curve.
But to be clear, my basic point remains. For the most part, spending time on large group differences such as men and women is unlikely to lead to produce better pedagogies or anything else of real operational significance - for the reasons I gave earlier. It is the wrong unit of analysis.
See Herbert Blumer’s Sociological analysis and the “variable” http://www.asanet.org/images/asa/docs/pdf/1956%20Presidential%20Address%20(Herbert%20Blumer).pdf


18 posted on 10/20/2020 9:21:16 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: bjc

I agree that looking at group differences is the wrong thing to do. We should be looking at individuals as measured, as much as possible, by objective standards. But tell that to government, the media, academia, etc, which are utterly obsessed with group differences and which zealously insist that all such differences be eliminated. Even small group differences at the median can produce very large group differences two or three standard deviations out along the left or right tail of the Bell curve. If we focus on individuals and insist on a level playing field, that’s not a problem. For the race and gender wokesters, nothing else matters.


20 posted on 10/20/2020 9:46:58 AM PDT by sphinx
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