You can't win with a racist. But I'm trying anyhow: Could I get a little help here?

[Charles Drago]

I'm afraid that "love-link" is not a very useful term of art.

On the other hand, "peer-reviewed link" avoids all confusion and keeps the conversation elevated.

FWIW.

You're right. Do you want me to apologize? I write the occasional crummy word pairing, don't you?

Thank you.

No.

Hardly ever.

[Max Blair]

I'm afraid that "love-link" is not a very useful term of art.

On the other hand, "peer-reviewed link" avoids all confusion and keeps the conversation elevated.

FWIW.

You're right. Do you want me to apologize? I write the occasional crummy word pairing, don't you?

Thank you.

No.

Hardly ever.

I don't know you, so I can't really respond to that substantially. But I will say that someone who thinks his poop doesn't stink probably has a history of rheumatic fever or similar medical conditions that adversely affect the sense of smell.

[Jan Klimkowski]

I don't know you, so I can't really respond to that substantially. But I will say that someone who thinks his poop doesn't stink probably has a history of rheumatic fever or similar medical conditions that adversely affect the sense of smell.

Max - you did respond "substantially".

Is that the word you meant?

Magda and Adele were entirely gracious to you, as a newcomer, and gave you thoughtful and factual answers.

Charles encouraged you to be clear in your use of language.

I note you're posting from a university address.

Are you an academic?

Do you employ game theory?

[Max Blair]

I don't know you, so I can't really respond to that substantially. But I will say that someone who thinks his poop doesn't stink probably has a history of rheumatic fever or similar medical conditions that adversely affect the sense of smell.

Max - you did respond "substantially".

Is that the word you meant?

Magda and Adele were entirely gracious to you, as a newcomer, and gave you thoughtful and factual answers.

Charles encouraged you to be clear in your use of language.

I note you're posting from a university address.

Are you an academic?

Do you employ game theory?

I'm a graduate student. I don't know much about game theory. As to what I meant with my use of substantially, I do not believe that I responded, "to a great or significant extent (Oxford American Dictionary)." I submit that's in the eye of the beholder. Do you have a problem with what I said to Magda and Adele?

[Max Blair]

Hi. I am mildly autistic. I don't really understand how the world works. I have this friend, also mildly autistic, who believes that the overwhelming weight of peer reviewed science, most evident by the work of the late Canadian JP Rushton, decisively proves that black people are, on the average, substantially less intelligent than white people. She believes that the reason for this has been proven by Rushton to be because they have smaller brains. Yeah, I know. You can't win with a racist. I know the smart thing to do is just unfriend her, walk away, cut my losses, and blah blah blah. But hell, I haven't made a new friend that's stuck in years. I don't like to give up. This is kind of a last ditch deal here.

What would you say to my friend?

Max,

Did you know that yeara ago, according to many, women were considered to be less intelligent than men because they had smaller brains, since most women tend to be smaller persons than most men.

Since there are some white men who are smaller than other white or black men, would this also imply that these smaller white men were less
intelligent than bigger black or white men?

Would your friend think that women were less intelligent than men just because they are smaller persons?

All peoples of all different sizes have the same intellectual capacities regardless of racial characteristics.

Adele

I have come across much of that in my own reading. Do you have any links to peer reviewed material that backs that up?

[Max Blair]

More here:
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=C-jI...q=&f=false

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives...ell-curve/

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/in...oneer-fund

http://www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/h699.dir/KennyPioneer.pdf

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=UGYf...CGEQ6AEwBw

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02262739

[URL="http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/55.short"]http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/55.short

[/URL]http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/ar...ebate.html

Thanks. Some of these are really helpful.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Max, Magda wrote: "Your friend needs to do more reading."

I think you do too.

Magda has provided a number of articles which should lead to further reading and illumination.

DPF has its own particular space on the internet. We expect a certain level of knowledge, or willingness to spend time acquiring knowledge.

This is not a political kindergarten.

[Max Blair]

Max, Magda wrote: "Your friend needs to do more reading."

I think you do too.

Magda has provided a number of articles which should lead to further reading and illumination.

DPF has its own particular space on the internet. We expect a certain level of knowledge, or willingness to spend time acquiring knowledge.

This is not a political kindergarten.

With all due respect, Jan, my initial read causes me to find your quoted remark insulting. I am inclined to take umbrage, but I don't know you and you don't know me. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I will strive not to rush to judgement. I think you should as well.

[Jan Klimkowski]

With all due respect, Jan, my initial read causes me to find your quoted remark insulting. I am inclined to take umbrage, but I don't know you and you don't know me. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I will strive not to rush to judgement. I think you should as well.

Don't patronise me.

You asked for infomation, in a very coy way, and then spurned it, suggesting a sympathy for extreme racist views.

You're a guest here, and I'm sorely tempted to show you the door.

[Max Blair]

With all due respect, Jan, my initial read causes me to find your quoted remark insulting. I am inclined to take umbrage, but I don't know you and you don't know me. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I will strive not to rush to judgement. I think you should as well.

Don't patronise me.

You asked for infomation, in a very coy way, and then spurned it, suggesting a sympathy for extreme racist views.

You're a guest here, and I'm sorely tempted to show you the door.

I beg your pardon. I truly did not mean to give offense. I do not believe that I spurned any information presented to me. I insist it was not my intent. Please show me precisely where you think that I did so that I may clarify what I posted and apologize. I am genuinely distressed by what you have written.