Letters to the Editor
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Not the smartest bug
Regrettably the race/IQ problem is not confined to USA. Recently Professor James Watson almost had to be smuggled out of UK to avoid the self-righteous fury of the liberal lynch mob, which his recent his utterances on the subject generated. IQ is a measurable population variable like height, weight, shoe-size, nose length, penis length or breast cup size. Some of these variables are more emotive than others. If it were shown that blacks had, say larger feet than Asians, a sensible shoe manufacturer would adjust his output accordingly when selling his wares to black communities. Maybe, ‘one size fits all’ is not a good maxim for either shoe manufacturers or educationalists. Maybe we should try to come to terms with the variables as they are and stop worrying about their causes.