Oh, wow, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, man.

Like you're going to be a lot.

Oh, oh, oh, wow. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast episode 82.

Intelligence Part 3.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in this third and final component of the intelligence series of episodes, we're going to look at the controversial issue of group differences in intelligence.

And we're going to focus on differences between black and white intelligence in the United States, because that's where most of the research has been done.

I'll say a little bit about gender differences in intelligence as well,

but mostly we'll look at racial differences, as I said,

with a focus on the black-white differences in the United States.

Though I think it's likely that many of the general methodological and conceptual issues that we touch upon will be

applicable in the analysis of racial differences elsewhere, both for other races and in other countries.

Recommended pre-listing for this episode is the previous episode on

Intelligence, Episode 81, Intelligence Part 2.

So basically, in this episode, we're going to critically analyze some of the literature

and public debate about group differences in

intelligence. And particularly what I want to do is focus on some of the claims that have been

made and the evidence that have been provided for them, because what I want to really focus on

is the types of evidence that could support claims made either way, what the evidence actually

does look like, but also how we could interpret the evidence and what sort of evidence we

would need in order to substantiate some of the claims that have been made.

So let's begin, and I think a good place to start is by talking about the 1994 book called The Bell Curve, Intelligence and Class

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