Robert Sternberg returns

A history for those unfamiliar

Robert Sternberg has licked his wounds and returned to the fray. OK, it was limited to some viral video (2M), but nevertheless. Here’s a repost of it:

Not really worth debunking in detail, since it is just Sternberg claiming stuff without any evidence. If you are nonetheless curious, there are some good posts on X about this (genOm1cs, 2, Hitchslap, Justinjmtjj, Cofnas). Anyway, since many people may not recall his prior behavior and problems, I will provide a historical summary.

Sternberg was one of the psychologists who used to battle it out in the academic journals with Arthur Jensen (e.g. in the famous 2005 special issue). You can see why: he’s an anti-hereditarian researcher who was willing to engage (if only to get more self-citations). Most of the anti-hereditarians aren’t even willing to engage but only do meta-talk and name calling (e.g. Kevin Bird has published 1 paper of actual genetic research, and multiple meta-talk papers about how bad the hereditarians are). Currently, almost the only competent anti-hereditarian to sort of engage is Sasha Gusev (though many people block him because he is poorly behaved).