Indeed as strange as it might sound (but not to those who know what he usually blogs about) Steve Sailer seems to genuinely like black people more than average and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if a test showed he wasn’t biased against them or was less biased than the average white American.
He also dosen’t seem like racist2 from the vast majority of his writing, painting him as racist3 is plain absurd.
Historically, proposing policies that are set to help the specific strengths of a minority group are not generally indicative of actually positive feelings about those groups.
The IAT is the best measure of ‘genuinely like X people’ we have now, though that’s not saying much. (I believe the only place he published it is VDare, which is currently down.)
Historically, proposing policies that are set to help the specific strengths of a minority group are not generally indicative of actually positive feelings about those groups.
What are the competing hypotheses and competing observations, here?
It seems to me the natural interpretation for “genuine” is “unconscious,” and if that post is relevant, it seems that it argues for more relative importance for the IAT over stated positions and opinions.
Where would someone like Steve Sailer fit in this classification?
Indeed as strange as it might sound (but not to those who know what he usually blogs about) Steve Sailer seems to genuinely like black people more than average and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if a test showed he wasn’t biased against them or was less biased than the average white American.
He also dosen’t seem like racist2 from the vast majority of his writing, painting him as racist3 is plain absurd.
What evidence leads to this conclusion?
He published his IAT results and he’s proposed policies that play to the strengths of blacks.
Historically, proposing policies that are set to help the specific strengths of a minority group are not generally indicative of actually positive feelings about those groups.
The IAT is the best measure of ‘genuinely like X people’ we have now, though that’s not saying much. (I believe the only place he published it is VDare, which is currently down.)
What are the competing hypotheses and competing observations, here?
...for a particular value of genuine. (See this, BTW.)
It seems to me the natural interpretation for “genuine” is “unconscious,” and if that post is relevant, it seems that it argues for more relative importance for the IAT over stated positions and opinions.