Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

[Pinker] had three source.... The first was Steve Sailer. Sailer, for the uninitiated, is a California blogger with a marketing background who is best known for his belief that black people are intellectually inferior to white people. Sailer’s “proof”... is... crude: his key variable is how many times a player has been named to the Pro Bowl. Pinker’s second source was a blog post... who also failed to appreciate... the distinction between aggregate and per-play performance. Pinker’s third source was an article in the Columbia Journalism Review... that made an argument partly based on a link to a blog called “Niners Nation” which in turn makes reference to a “study” of quarterbacks conducted by a fantasy football website...