(1) If you are smart enough to come up with the theory of relativity, then you are smart enough to have (a) written Hamlet; (b) composed Fuer Elise, Einer Kleine Nachtmusic, and the Blue Danube Waltz; (c) Painted the Mona Lisa; and (d) fried an egg while balancing on a wire over Niagara Falls.Such beliefs and modes of debate are characteristic of the unscientific mind. The mind of the individual unaware of the logic of scientific discovery, and in particular, the dependence of scientific advance on testable hypotheses and the rejection of hypotheses inconsistent with empirical evidence.
(2) That a kid raised on the streets of what IQ-ists seem invariably to call a “shithole country” (e.g., USA, or at least parts thereof) is generally less adept in the manipulation of words and numbers than a graduate of Exeter and Harvard or Eton and Oxford solely because of an inferior genetic potential.
(3) The best way to deal with critics of the IQ-ist thesis is by: (a) unsubstantiated assertion; (b) unsubstantiated negation; or (c) argumentum ad vericundiam, ignoratium, nauseam, or hominem.
They are, in fact, the modes of thought of what may be a majority of psychologists, adherents of a “discipline” that brought to the world the deeply strange construct of Freudian psychiatry, the equally bizarre behaviorist’s denial of the existence of mind, and, today, IQ-ism, so dear to the hearts of race supremacists and those committed to a fascistic social order under which each person will bear a definitive mark of intellectual rank, thereby establishing a rigid hierarchy of status and authority.
