Yes there were many books pushing American ideas of scientific racism before but this was better zazzed up taking out that unnecessary academic thoroughness so people like yourself would connect to it. Good for coffee tables, A Brief History of Time for people who had a leaning to be racist but did not know how to cloud their views in scientific-ish terms.
If you actually read the book as you claim, you would know that it had 111 pages of appendices and another 111 pages of endnote citations.
Yes, because that is a replacement for peer-review... But look at the appendix! Must be authorative! Look, the book had an interesting sweeping vision of what they believed back in the early 1990s going to happen to US society. It had to have curiosity engaging stuff in it to be as popular as it was. Your focusing on the authors’ application of their theories about IQ to the question of race is just typical of a racist using arguments from (there about four fallacies employed). I said before, there is actual science being done and why not wait for measurement to catch up.
You were the one focusing on that aspect, I was the one mentioning that only one chapter covered racial differences. You brought the book up first.
That's a misleading post. I used TBC only for the quote that Appalachian children were scoring higher than the children of black professionals. There are plenty of books and research papers with similar material.
Its not a misleading post, it shows that you brought up TBC first. So say, yes, you were correct like a man would.
Though not remembered them. Usually when somebody proclaims knowledge of a set of works, they recall what's in them. Just reading the summary of Losing Ground I surmise it was not.