PSYA02H3 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Intelligence Causes
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Doing a lot of studies of racial differences on a number of dimensions. These dimensions included intellectual prowess, but also physical/sexual prowess. He would ask subjects about their sex life, their sexual abilities, or various other things. Ended up coming to a very controversial conclusion: you can see clear differences, if we think of humans of being part of one of three races (caucasian, african-american, and asian) Selected research that fits with what he wanted to say, but there"s also research that opposes what he wants to say, that he never bothered talking about/including. So not every scientist believes what he says. We often use the term intelligence as if we were talking about a single characteristic a person possesses we typically talk of someone being intelligent or not period. But let"s consider another characteristic for a moment athletic capability.
