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How critics of racial hereditarian research (mis)categorize empirical studies: Commentary on Bird et al. (2024)
1Graduate School, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola.
Abstract:
According to Bird et al. (2024), racial hereditarian research (RHR) is scientific racism that should be curbed by the American Psychological Association. They presented an RHR bibliography in which I found eight works of Federico R. León addressing cognitive performance. The eight studies were animated by a socioecological rather than RHR perspective and two of them explicitly contradicted the racial/hereditarian position. I conclude that Bird et al.'s design of the RHR bibliographic classification was erroneous and counterproductive to their own aims and should be modified. I also suggest alternative ways to strengthen anti-RHR positions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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