What This Blog Will Cover

I totally doubt the posting on this blog will be regular enough to sustain a steady constant stream of readers. Probably what will happen on here will gain a regular number of temporary readers who happen to find this on google. That's all fine with me, and if anything people who find this information especially useful may decide to link to posts that matter to them.

But despite the irregularity in posting, there will be posts nonetheless and this one is devoted to making a few tidbits of information about myself available.

Why do I even care about this book? Why devote an entire blog to a book on intelligence and society? What's the fascination with this topic anyhow?

I don't plan on diving too deep into those questions, because they don't matter. But I will say this: I think the subject matter of the book is extremely important and will continue to become increasingly relevant to what's going on in society over time. Plenty of new articles and/or videos come up all the time that are relevant to "The Bell Curve." Lots of stuff is already out there that simply has yet to even be gathered in one place.

Also, I think the general public perception of what "The Bell Curve" is actually about is so radically distorted from it's true content, that I feel somewhat obligated to have a blog like this set up given that I actually read the whole thing. Aside from all the crazy misconceptions about the book (racism accusations being most common), there are also a variety of criticisms of how the book handles various pieces of data and how accurate much of that data is to begin with.

Last but not least, I think the book is a fascinating collection of data and observation. There's nothing to lose from taking the time to understand this book at all, unless you happen to be the type who avoids reading books at all (which if you're reading this, you probably aren't).

Those two paragraphs above greatly summarize what most of the posts here will deal with. Aggregating relevant materials and responding to criticisms. The latter can really be divided into misconceptions about what the book is about, and mistakes in critiques of the book's content itself.

So there you have it. In the next post, I'll get more personal about myself.