PSYC 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Jared Diamond, David Suzuki, Social Identity Theory
16 Apr 2016
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Maybe the issue is motivation? i. e. white kids are trained and taught to try hard vs. minorities who don"t > if that"s the case, genetics isn"t the explanation. Point is, while social scientists were approaching this theory of genetics with emotion, those propagating the theory were using science. Philippe rushton wrote a book which summarized and proved the genetic difference (if you present data, apparently it"s not racist anymore) for starters, he measured the head circumference of asians, whites, and blacks and found that. Thursday, november 12, 2015 asians had the biggest heads, whites had intermediate sized heads, and blacks had small heads (opposite trend with the penis ) Then comes in david suzuki, a world-class geneticist: Rejected rushton"s ndings had a debate with him rushton buried him. Instead of counteracting the genetics theory with science that counters it with legitimate data, we react to it with emotion.
