NYU Bans Discoverer Of DNA Because He Correctly Said Blacks Score Lower On IQ Tests
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I understand what you mean, but most people don't get what those terms mean. Witness the general confusion between correlation and causation in the public.
I often ask my students which is more important: correlation or causation. They always say causation, and that's the wrong answer.
Causation creates security in your predictions, because you can finally see the mechanism by which A produces B. But animals (including humans) don't get rewarded for knowing why something works; they get rewarded for behaving successfully, even when they don't know why those behaviors lead to success.
Animals, in particular, never know why anything is successful, because their brain capacity is too low. But animals succeeded all the time by behaving successfully.
So when a human, especially a young human, discovers that two variables are correlated, he should follow whatever the science suggests (at least for awhile), and see what happens.
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When you say high IQ is a strong predictor of success, you may be right technically, but what people actually hear is "High IQ = success" and infer that low IQ must mean failure. They just filter out the fact that predictions aren't prophesies.
Predictions are prophecies among large sample sizes, but never among individuals. So the very things that science is supposed to enlighten, such as why it's a bad idea to expect "education" to make Blacks equal to Whites, are dismissed because people want to believe that those predictions apply to individuals.