shaunfromyoutube

The Bell Curve update:

Added 2019-11-04 13:40:12 +0000 UTC

Howdy folks! Currently in the process of drawing up a list of revisions to The Bell Curve video. Here’s a few of them so far. Production-wise:

A lot of the images in the video will be replaced for being blurry - these are scans I made that looked fine in my editor but exported all weird. They’ll be swapped out for clear versions, & there will be more of them.

I’ll put in brief pauses and segment titles breaking up the video, & corresponding timecode links in the description.

I’ll post a bibliography & include small cite notes on screen pointing to the sources for quotes.

The audio will be rerecorded and cleaner. Current audio is kind of a rush job. I’ll also fix any pronunciation errors that have been pointed out to me.

Any ms-paint temp graphics will be replaced for better ones, and they will be used more frequently.

Considering not having the skull in the background this time? Maybe changing it for something else. Not sure about that though.

+ Thumbnail, proper video description, credits, etc

Content-wise:

There will be various minor changes in phrasing for the purposes of accuracy and clarity.

I’ll be quoting from the book more frequently in a few places, to better evidence my claims about what it says.

I’ll briefly go into Murray’s newer studies he brings up in the afterword to defend Richard Lynn - turns out one of those is from South Africa pre-end of apartheid, too. Ha

I’m gonna rewrite the conclusion to the section discussing general intelligence, to make more clear the implications for not proving a genetic basis for intelligence upon the overall argument of the book. I will probably also include Murray’s goalpost shifting wrt when exactly the science is supposed to prove him right, which I hint at later but don’t go into.

Gonna rewrite part of the Lynn section to make clear that he does actually include which norm group he is using in his later book that I quote from, but doesn’t in his 1991 study. I will probably also rewrite the bit about how Lynn transforms the test scores into IQs, as that is perhaps a little unclear. Also might just cut it entirely - that section already has enough proof that Lynn is a hack, & introducing a hard-to-convey concept might end up distracting from that.

I mention health briefly in the list of things that might affect someone’s chance of being in poverty - I’m going to expand on that briefly.

Going to rewrite where I claim that TBC has several quotes agreeing with my counter arguments to include some specific examples, such as them also paraphrasing Lewontin’s thought experiment.

Going to rewrite where I claim that there would have to be an evolutionary mechanism behind changes in intelligence, as I make it sound like too much of a sure thing that it would have to be a direct cause. I shall make sure to mention the indirect possibilities.

There are tons more points of criticism that I do not go into for either time reasons or because they’re too complicated - I might briefly mention these in the outro.

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Thanks for the feedback so far. I’ll be adding to this list over the next couple of weeks, so there’s still plenty of time to add anything you think will be useful.