Talk:Wickliffe Draper

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Hi Fastfission. The pioneer fund is sometimes fallaciously (but well-intentionedly) reduced to a funder of race and intelligence research. My change to the intro was trying to take into account that the fund funds a wide range of research.--Nectarflowed ^T 17:34, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

It looks to me like you replaced a line saying that they study race an intelligence to one about how they study the heredity of human differences, which is usually a euphemism for studying race and intelligence. --Fastfission 22:08, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I agree replacement with a euphemism would be a questionable change, but they do fund a variety of work that seems to warrant the broader description ("heredity and human differences" --the phrase they use). See, for example, the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, of which they were a partial funder. The fund's site gives a list of notable grantees and their work, broken down into the four categories that are funded: behavioral genetics, intelligence, social demography, and group differences (sex, social class, and race).--Nectarflowed ^T 03:55, 2 August 2005 (UTC)