Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Race, gender, genes, Larry Summers and Malcolm Gladwell

Steve Sailer writes on the racial views of best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell:

The top selling non-fiction book Blink is coining mucho bling for Malcolm Gladwell, yet in 1997 Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article called "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls," which made exactly the same argument as Larry Summers made about what is innately different in the capabilities of males and females -- that men have a larger standard deviation on many traits, so there are more men at the top (and bottom) of the bell curves.

Sailer goes on to show that Gladwell, like Summers, believes in the existence of group differences but because Gladwell is generally considered to be politically correct he can get away with it.

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