{"id":4270,"date":"2012-04-07T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:07:52","slug":"an-intelligence-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4270","title":{"rendered":"An intelligence test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, gentle reader. I&#8217;m about to give you an intelligence test.  To begin the test, read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire\/print\">The Talk: Nonblack version<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The single most important kind of intelligence is the ability to see past your own strongly-held preconceptions and your tribe&#8217;s conventional wisdom and engage reality as it actually is and facts as they actually are.  <\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to ask you some questions about your response to the article.<\/p>\n<p>1. Did you fail to notice that the key paragraph in it is this one: &#8220;Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. Did you <s>recoil from<\/s> refuse to accept any claim in the article that you recognized as true or probably true because it would hurt peoples&#8217; feelings?<\/p>\n<p>3. Did you at any point refuse to believe a fact claim in the article because you think the world would be a worse or uglier place if the claim were true? <\/p>\n<p>4. Did you finish the article believing that John Derbyshire (the author) is a racist?<\/p>\n<p>5. Do you believe I am a racist for having asked the previous four questions?<\/p>\n<p>If you answered &#8220;Yes&#8221; to any of the above questions, you failed the test.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Changed the phrasing of question 2 slightly as some people found it confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, gentle reader. I&#8217;m about to give you an intelligence test. To begin the test, read &#8220;The Talk: Nonblack version&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-racism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}