A professor of biology, writing in 2007, reminds the readers of his blog about facts of population genetics that are often misunderstood.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/08/there-are-no-marching-morons/

A treatment of this same issue in a collection of articles by statistically astute scientists can be found in Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve, edited by Devlin, Fienberg, Resnick, and Roeder (1997).

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Genes-Success-Scientists-Statistics/dp/0387949860


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