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Introduction: Mark Palko points me to a news article by Zack Beauchamp on Jason Richwine, the recent Ph.D. graduate from Harvard’s policy school who left the conservative Heritage Foundation after it came out that his Ph.D. thesis was said to be all about the low IQ’s of Hispanic immigrants. Heritage and others apparently thought this association could discredit their anti-immigration-reform position. Richwine’s mentor Charles Murray was unhappy about the whole episode. Beauchamp’s article is worth reading in that it provides some interesting background, in particular by getting into the details of the Ph.D. review process. In a sense, Beauchamp is too harsh. Flawed Ph.D. theses get published all the time. I’d say that most Ph.D. theses I’ve seen are flawed: usually the plan is to get the papers into shape later, when submitting them to journals. If a student doesn’t go into academia, the thesis typically just sits there and is rarely followed up on. I don’t know the statistics o
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10 At some point, the goal is for the student to graduate, it’s not required that the thesis have all its holes plugged. [sent-22, score-0.347]
11 We last heard from Richwine on this blog a few years ago , in the context of an article where he tied himself into knots on the topic of intelligence and politics, ultimately arguing that Saul Bellow’s aunt (? [sent-24, score-0.459]
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13 We’re taking Richwine’s testimony on Saul Bellow’s aunt’s intelligence? [sent-27, score-0.073]
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