What I find amazing is that no article I read actually quotes Watson as saying Africans have lower IQs. What he said was that he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really.”
His claim was ONLY that Africans' intelligence is different than "ours."
Is there much doubt as to his meaning? Perhaps not, but I should think on this blog we would not commit the sin of assuming too much.
What I find amazing is that no article I read actually quotes Watson as saying Africans have lower IQs. What he said was that he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really.”
His claim was ONLY that Africans' intelligence is different than "ours."
Is there much doubt as to his meaning? Perhaps not, but I should think on this blog we would not commit the sin of assuming too much.