no one attacks his [Flynn's] scientific objectivity
Yes, because he has demonstrated his scientific objectivity by changing his point of view from time to time, digging up new evidence when scientists say his previously offered evidence is inadequate, and scrupulously honoring his most ardent opponents with credit when their counterarguments prompt him to reconsider his previous publications. What Flynn writes in the early twenty-first century about IQ is much better quality research than what he wrote in the 1970s. (It's important to point out that already by the 1980s he was being published in Psychological Bulletin, the most prestigious journal in psychology, because his articles were meeting a high standard of scholarship.) Take a look at which psychologists and sociologists praise Flynn, his research in general, or his latest book on the Amazon.com page for his latest book:
Ian Deary, Edinburgh University
Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute & co-author of The Bell Curve
> Yes, because he has demonstrated his scientific objectivity by changing his point of view from time to time, digging up new evidence when scientists say his previously offered evidence is inadequate, and scrupulously honoring his most ardent opponents with credit when their counterarguments prompt him to reconsider his previous publications.
This is true for Jensen and several other researchers - yet they are treated as pariahs in the public arena.
Several have questioned the objectivity of Jensen (and other researchers). As I have said before, James Flynn is both a passionate left-wing politician and he freely admits that he is egalitarian. E.g. in “How to defend Humane Ideals: Substitutes for objectivity”:
> This book was written by someone committed to humane-egalitarian ideals...
So, how can anyone question Jensen's objectivity but not that of Flynn?
There are several attacks on Jensen and others holding up Flynn as the poster boy (see at the end). Flynn has not done anything to dispel that. He even wrote a book attacking Jensen indirectly (Race, IQ and Jensen). Here is a quote:
> However, the last stand of the racist is not without importance, something I will attempt to demonstrate by giving a racist ideologue his say.
Scientists should search for truth – with not prior preconceptions or beliefs (i.e. he should search for truth and not just justification).
Here is an example of some Jensen attacks:
“Resurrecting Racism: The modern attack on black people using phony science” (by the popular anthropologist Francisco Gil-White):
I will not quote it since the whole chapter is full of Jensen attacks.
The extremely popular “The Mismeasure of Man” by Stephen Jay Gould also have the same attacks Jensen and others.
The list goes on. There is a saying that I translated to English: “They are not sheared over the same comb” i.e. Flynn are treated differently than those with opposing viewpoints.
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no one attacks his [Flynn's] scientific objectivity
Yes, because he has demonstrated his scientific objectivity by changing his point of view from time to time, digging up new evidence when scientists say his previously offered evidence is inadequate, and scrupulously honoring his most ardent opponents with credit when their counterarguments prompt him to reconsider his previous publications. What Flynn writes in the early twenty-first century about IQ is much better quality research than what he wrote in the 1970s. (It's important to point out that already by the 1980s he was being published in Psychological Bulletin, the most prestigious journal in psychology, because his articles were meeting a high standard of scholarship.) Take a look at which psychologists and sociologists praise Flynn, his research in general, or his latest book on the Amazon.com page for his latest book:
Ian Deary, Edinburgh University
Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute & co-author of The Bell Curve
Sir Michael Rutter, Kings College London
N. J. Mackintosh, University of Cambridge
Richard Restak, American Scholar
S. J. Ceci, Cornell University
Robert J. Sternberg, PsycCRITIQUES
and others.
> Yes, because he has demonstrated his scientific objectivity by changing his point of view from time to time, digging up new evidence when scientists say his previously offered evidence is inadequate, and scrupulously honoring his most ardent opponents with credit when their counterarguments prompt him to reconsider his previous publications.
This is true for Jensen and several other researchers - yet they are treated as pariahs in the public arena.
Several have questioned the objectivity of Jensen (and other researchers). As I have said before, James Flynn is both a passionate left-wing politician and he freely admits that he is egalitarian. E.g. in “How to defend Humane Ideals: Substitutes for objectivity”:
> This book was written by someone committed to humane-egalitarian ideals...
So, how can anyone question Jensen's objectivity but not that of Flynn?
There are several attacks on Jensen and others holding up Flynn as the poster boy (see at the end). Flynn has not done anything to dispel that. He even wrote a book attacking Jensen indirectly (Race, IQ and Jensen). Here is a quote:
> However, the last stand of the racist is not without importance, something I will attempt to demonstrate by giving a racist ideologue his say.
Scientists should search for truth – with not prior preconceptions or beliefs (i.e. he should search for truth and not just justification).
Here is an example of some Jensen attacks:
“Resurrecting Racism: The modern attack on black people using phony science” (by the popular anthropologist Francisco Gil-White):
You can read chapter 6 here : http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrchap6.htm
I will not quote it since the whole chapter is full of Jensen attacks.
The extremely popular “The Mismeasure of Man” by Stephen Jay Gould also have the same attacks Jensen and others.
The list goes on. There is a saying that I translated to English: “They are not sheared over the same comb” i.e. Flynn are treated differently than those with opposing viewpoints.