Racing toward the finish line.

Replies to published comments on our original article (R. L. Sternberg, E. L. Grigorenko, and K. K. Kidd, see record 2005-00117-006). G. Carey (see record 2006-01690-008) cited in his response to our article a study by Tang et al. (2005) showing that "of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity, only 5 (0.14%) showed genetic cluster membership different from their self-identified race/ethnicity" (p. 268). At Carey's invitation, we are glad to provide a counterresponse. Correspondence between self-identification and biological characteristics does not form a suitable basis for assigning people to "races." Moreover, it appears that Carey's (2006) response to our article can be explained, at least partially, by his incomplete understanding of the data, analyses, and results presented in Tang et al. (2005). With regard to D. I. Templer's (see record 2006-01690-009) response, we do not give much credence to the M. Snyderman and S. Rothman (1988) survey. If the survey were done in 1908, probably there would have been even more emphasis on genes. If scientists in earlier times were surveyed on the causes of fire, they might well all have agreed that phlogiston was responsible. In another era, they would have agreed that the Sun revolves around the Earth. Implicit theories are useful ways of ascertaining popular folk beliefs, including those of scientists, but they are not scientifically definitive. As to Rushton's (1995) findings, we are not clear on what conclusion is to be drawn from the correlations--that people with larger cranial capacities are more likely to move away from the equator, that moving away from the equator produces greater cranial capacity, or that both larger cranial capacity and distance from the equator are dependent on some unknown third variable. Finally, in response to C. L. McLafferty (see record 2006-01690-010), we agree that the dichotomization of nature and nurture is a somewhat artificial analytical division that has been at times misused. Whereas we might not fully accept the revised classification proposed by McLafferty, we agree that the nature-nurture division has outlived its value. Nor is there a simple continuum between fully nature and fully nurture--the relevance of variation in nurture depends on the mean and range of variation in nature, and vice versa (Lewontin, 1974). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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