“a kind of social paranoia, a belief that mysterious, hostile forces are operating to cause inequalities in educational and occupational performance, despite all apparent efforts to eliminate prejudice and discrimination”

Quoting from Arthur Jensen's book Educability and group differences (1973). He was being criticized for postulating genetic causes, which some critics think would cause great social harm if they were…

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Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind I had heard good things about this book, sort of. It has been cited a lot. Enough that I would be wiling to read it, given that the author…

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Review: Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Joshua D. Greene)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=08a6526a7a706c4ae5f5aa7543ffc702 Years ago when i used to study filosofy, i came across Joshua's website. On the site i found his phd thesis which i read. It is probably the…

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