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0:00 A message from Glenn
1:14 Unsettling the “Settled Questions,” Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
2:59 The Race and IQ Question, Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
12:19 Facing Reality, Glenn Loury & Charles Murray
21:40 The IQ Taboo, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax
31:08 Debate with an Embattled Racial Realist, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax
45:44 The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality, Glenn Loury
48:21 The Dangers of Research into Race & IQ, Glenn Loury & Lex Fridman
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Even though this had to be a repeat I appreciated hearing the discussions.
I think the analogy of eye glasses to possible remediation for low IQ isn’t very useful. Eye glasses are technically simple, cheap, & widely accepted/understood. But that isn’t the case for any known remediation for low IQ. The studies always mentioned are the Perry Preschool Project & the Acededarian Early Intervention Project. First, because the main remediation studies are small and haven’t been replicated-particularly at scale (Perry Preschool & Abecedarian Early Intervention Project). Additionally, the Abecedarian Project had problems with its early set up-ie poor randomization & test subjects had higher IQs at an early stage). Second, the kind of interventions required are probably not achievable for a number of reasons-they require significant intrusions into the families involved.
We do have data that preschool is bad for children-even NPR has had to acknowledge the problem:
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079406041/researcher-says-rethink-prek-preschool-prekindergarten
If we had early interventions that clearly were effective then the rationale to use them would be overwhelming.
Maybe Neuralink. Ha.
Peterson makes a really important point. A lot of very smart people dismiss the validity of IQ because they don’t have significant interactions with people on the left side of the bell curve.