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#73 — Forbidden Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Sweetest Vindication of All Curves

No, nothing has been overturned since the bell curve came out. And there's been nothing overturned in the area of racial difference in mean IQ. The answers for that are yes. They are for blacks and whites. There's about as a standard deviation as the usual size of the difference. But just to put it in more traditional terms, if you're one standard deviation below the 16th percentile, that'll give you above the 84th percentile. If you're at the 1st or 2nd place on this list, then we've got your answer.

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