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Well Done!

Excellent work correcting the IQ article! Keep up the good effort! A Very Manly Man (talk) 07:20, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Seconded! Tim bates (talk) 19:57, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Good job fixing the more egregious issues in the Ashkenazi intelligence article. I've tried to structure it a bit, but it still has horrible prose flow overall. Heritability is an article in need of attention, if you're interested, of course; it's subject to regular POV pushing. Tijfo098 (talk) 18:16, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Causes and correlates of crime

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Scientific Racism article

Good job with the recent edits on this article. Honestly I think renaming the article like that was an attempt to legitimize Scientific Racism as a potentially credible field of study. I chose the word raciology or racial anthropology because I do not feel Scientific Racism should be confused with Anthropology. It is fringe and generally regarded as pseudoscience. Do you know how we can get the Scientific Racism article added to the list of categories for Pseudoscience? I tried to edit the page but could not figure it out. EgalitarianJay (talk) 17:17, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

• The research in The Bell Curve can be appropriately regarded as pseudoscience if they advocate theories with no scientific basis whose fundamental premises have been discredited. The authors of The Bell Curve promote the idea that race is a biological reality and that there is a large body of evidence supporting the hypothesis that there are heritable genetic traits that cause average disparities in intelligence between races. A great deal of the premises for their theory have been disputed such as the claim that race is a concept applicable to human biological variation, that their definition of intelligence is valid and that the behavior-genetic concept of heritability is reliable way to provide evidence for a casual link between race, genes and intelligence. Alot of their references have been called pseudoscientific by authorities in fields related to the research they cite. They may deny that they are racist however the idea of ranking races in hierarchical fashion based on mental traits is a racist concept. The Scientific Racism article already has pseudoscience as a tag so I suppose that is good enough. EgalitarianJay (talk) 02:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

evolutionary psychology

Thanks for your help. I hope that you can pace yourself, not burn out, and help improve the page over the long run. Your criticism of others' use of "consensus" is spot on. Leadwind (talk) 13:19, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

AE notification

Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Miradre The Resident Anthropologist (talk)•(contribs) 00:31, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Suspicion of sockpuppetry

I think user:Jagiello might be a sock or meatpuppet account, although I can't guess who's the sockpuppeteer. Look at their contributions. They had only nine edits since they joined Misplaced Pages in 2008, and then suddenly became active yesterday just to oppose you. If you have any ideas about the identity of the puppeteer, you might want to start an SPI.Boothello (talk) 05:33, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Miadre's own tactics forced me into endless discussions, and I certainly am not the only one in that case. Any page where miadre is there to protect her/his eugenist & white supremacist POV explodes with endless discussions designed to deter any non-racist editing until it cannot be avoided. I certainly wish I could have stopped with my first point (the whole process has NOT been pleasant), but miadre's outrageous tactics ironically backfire by forcing usual lurkers like myself to get involved. So that you don't waste your time in further speculation, I'll tell you I come from the French wiki where my username is Jagiellon. Jagiello (talk) 15:35, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Request for Clarification regarding R/I AE

A clarification request related to you has been made. Please see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request_for_clarification:_Race_and_Intelligence aprock (talk) 21:18, 5 April 2011 (UTC)