Thursday, November 1, 2012

Arthur Jensen & JP Rushton


As many regular readers probably know, two controversial psychometricians, Arthur Jensen and Jean Philippe Rushton, recently died. I had collected nearly every document that the two had published with the intention of widely sharing. Unfortunately, a catastrophic hard drive failure erased most of it. For now, here are books by them and a televised debate featuring Rushton.

Arthur Jensen - The g Factor

JP Rushton - Race, Evolution, & Behavior (Unabridged)


9 comments:

  1. For now, here are books by them

    Thank you, good sir.

    B.B.

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  2. Thanks, never read the full Rushton.

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  3. Thanks, many of Rushton's publications can be found in the personal section of the Charles Darwin Institute's site.

    http://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/

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  4. Interview with Jensen in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Fall 2006, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 327–352

    http://www.edb.utexas.edu/robinson/danr/JEBS%2031(3)%20-06_Jensen%20profile.pdf

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  5. In 1990 at the behest of Professor Rushton and of Harry Weyher of the Pioneer Fund and probably of Travis Osborne, chief advisor to Weyher--distinguished academics were asked to write letters defendig Rushton's academic rights vis a vis persecution by the University of Western Ontario and "the media". 45 of them did so. These Letters were bound together and presented variously to the UWO administration , to psychologists, to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, to the Ontario AG, etc etc. No assertion of copyright was ever made. It is a bit odd over 22 years they have not been made reasonably accessible. They make a resonant statement and juxtposed to such
    "information" as the wikipedia entry for Professor Rushton, they tend to boomerang big time the shoddy detractors and PC attack dogs.

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  6. @ Charlie,

    Why? Jensen is one of the most eminent psychologists in history. Both were incredibly brave to stick to the data despite the unpopular conclusions.

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  7. Thank you very much.

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