Thursday, January 05, 2006

Anonalogue is a Racist Dweeb

Showing once again that a little bit of education is a dangerous thing for a regressive mind. Anonmyass blogger Anonologue denounces the Liberals post secondary education plan using the Bell Curve as his defense of a Malthusian survival of the fittest.

Liberals Want To Waste Billions On Shitty Students
Hey f**kchop: ever hear of The Bell Curve?


The Bell Curve for those of you who don't remember is a discredited racist attempt to justify why White Folks like Mr. Anonologue are smarter than Black Folks. It tried to cover up its racist ideology by claiming of course that Asians are smarter than White Folks cause they score higher on math and science exams.

As noted biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote in his review of the Bell Curve:

Herrnstein and Murray's second claim, the lightning rod for most commentary extends the argument for innate cognitive stratification to a claim that racial differences in IQ are mostly determined by genetic causes—small difference for Asian superiority over Caucasian, but large for Caucasians over people of African descent. This argument is as old as the study of race, and is most surely fallacious. The last generation's discussion centered on Arthur Jensen's 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (far more elaborate and varied than anything presented in The Bell Curve, and therefore still a better source for grasping the argument and its problems), and on the cranky advocacy of William Shockley, a Nobel Prize–winning physicist. The central fallacy in using the substantial heritability of within–group IQ (among whites, for example) as an explanation of average differences between groups (whites versus blacks, for example) is now well known and acknowledged by all, including Herrnstein and Murray, but deserves a restatement by example. Take a trait that is far more heritable than anyone has ever claimed IQ to be but is politically uncontroversial—body height. Suppose that I measured the heights of adult males in a poor Indian village beset with nutritional deprivation, and suppose the average height of adult males is five feet six inches. Heritability within the village is high, which is to say that tall fathers (they may average five feet eight inches) tend to have tall sons, while short fathers (five feet four inches on average) tend to have short sons. But this high heritability within the village does not mean that better nutrition might not raise average height to five feet ten inches in a few generations. Similarly, the well–documented fifteen–point average difference in IQ between blacks and whites in America, with substantial heritability of IQ in family lines within each group, permits no automatic conclusion that truly equal opportunity might not raise the black average enough to equal or surpass the white mean.

Disturbing as I find the anachronism of The Bell Curve, I am even more distressed by its pervasive disingenuousness. The authors omit facts, misuse statistical methods, and seem unwilling to admit the consequence of their own words.



The virulent foul mouthings of this racist dweeb only prove that he is a sore loser, having obviously left school so long ago that he will not be able to benefit from the Liberal post secondary education plan. Jealousy is an ugly thing, so is racism. Bell Curve indeed. This guy is the ding dong.

Like many Blogging Tory's he thinks he lives in the United States.
"Precisely when did it become a bad idea in Canada for prospective college/university student to compete for scarce resources by writing entrance exams and SATs?"

Ummm Mr. Racist Dweeb we don't write SAT's in Canada.

And precisely when students had to compete for scarce resources was in the early 1980's as provincial governments reduced funding to Universities and Colleges and increased tuition fees and foreign student fees.

As funding decreased University Departments increased enterance grade requirements to limit access to public education, to restrict access and to keep their guild like monopolies over their professions like Medicine, Law, teaching etc.

5 comments:

  1. I personally make it a point not to read posts which begin with the words "Hey, Fuckchop!"

    For that matter, I try to make it a point not to read posts which contain the word "Anonalogue".

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  2. It's far from clear to me that he's referring to the book you mention (your analysis of which I agree with). I took it to mean bell curve grading schemes generally. Calling him racist is going too far.

    balbulican: I think "fuckchop" is funny, but then again, I also find Mr. Leahy on TPB funny when he says stuff like "we're in the eye of the shit-a-cane."

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  3. Actually I avoid posts which use f***chop or most foul language since I don't think it shows maturity in writing unless its a novel by Henry Miller or Chaucer. But since he mentioned bell curve in the same sentence and then praised the US system of education, along with his derogatory (damn there's them tory's again) comments about students incapable of achievement I figured that's exactly what he talked about as it was I figure he would of course clarify that here or on his own blog....if such was not the case.
    As it is I believe he spamed my live feed comment box in the left hand panel so I had to remove it since I could not remove his offensive spams.

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  4. Apparently he did mean the book.

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  5. Aha! See I was right...its not often the Bell Curve is refered to anymore outside a quicky reference in first year education classes.....And I may be assuming too much from Analouge about spaming my chat box it could have been Herr Patels or the minions of Kate too....been pissing off a few folks lately....

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