The Difficulty of Escaping Preconceptions in Writing an Article About the Difficulty of Escaping Preconceptions: Commentary on Hunt and Carlson (2007).

Abstract

If not for two major unsupported statements, Considerations Relating to the Study of Group Differences in Intelligence would be a superb piece. As it is, Hunt and Carlson (2007, this issue) have written a generally excellent guide to the thorny problem of studying group differences in intelligence. Such an article sensible, well-written, and balanced was sorely needed. This is a field that has been an ideological landmine. We are delighted to see a major work of this high caliber, motivated by science rather than ideology, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, However, we believe there are two major unsupported statements that mar this otherwise excellent article.