A 2018 analysis using Google Ngram Viewer found that the frequency of sentences linking the terms 'racism' or 'racist' with 'IQ' or 'intelligence' increased between 1965 and 2000.
January 01, 2018
high
temporal
N-gram based measurement of co-occurrence in written English to track textual representation of controversy around intelligence research.
A 2018 analysis using Google Ngram Viewer reported that between 1965 and 1984 the yearly frequencies of sentences linking 'racism'/'racist' with 'IQ'/'intelligence' and sentences linking 'heritability'/'heritable' with 'IQ'/'intelligence' were strongly positively correlated (r = 0.995, p < .05, N = 19), whereas between 1984 and 2000 the two trends were negatively correlated (r = -0.601, p < .05, N = 16), with sentences linking 'heritability'/'heritable' to 'IQ'/'intelligence' declining after 1984.
January 01, 2018
high
statistical
Correlation analysis of co-occurrence trends used to infer a possible chilling effect on discussion of heritability-related topics in intelligence research after increased controversialization.