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nought's avatar

>But in a blog post that September, Kirkegaard wrote that when he went to download the new data, the consortium had put in place a new restriction: To access the trove, petitioners needed to first create an account, using an institutional email address, and they had to agree not to use the data to make comparisons across ancestral groups.

Baffling, the lengths they go to.

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Compsci's avatar

We need to fight fire with fire. Is there no other way to access the data? Could there be someone of sufficient “qualifications” to gain access to the data and then scrupulously pass it along to those “banned” researchers? Also, has any of this data been gathered with Federal funds? Can this be a way to force release of such data?

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Torin McCabe's avatar

The leftist tactic is smart because it focuses on the weakest part of explaining the black white IQ gap which is using current GWAS methods to prove race IQ hereditarianism

But it is dishonest because it minimizes all the other and stronger reasons to believe in race IQ hereditarianism: stickiness of IQ gap measured in the US, failure of interventions, failure of finding an environmental cause, broader behavioral genetics findings on heredity

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