Some might think these are foreseeable costs a researcher have to bear in a society with historical injustices. But the reviewer didn't specify what exactly social harms the study might bring about. Addressing these considerations explicitly may help the review process?
Does admixture associations indicate genetic causation for race differences? Reviewers would have us believe they don't despite common interpretation in other fields. Why the double standards for behavioral/cognitive traits? You know why. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7632 pic.twitter.com/me3Lxa73na
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Turkheimer claimed in 1991 proof of genetic causation of race gaps would be as bad as nuclear bomb. I might agree but that's because I suspect the net benefit of nuclear bomb invention was positive because it led to decrease in wars between great powers. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7257
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I'm unsure about the historical origin of political ideologies. But there seems to some deep moral preferences underlying "progressive worldview" which are more or less incorrigible and which we aren't entitled to demand people to change (rather than change ours). ...
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... A more positive strategy is to argue that Turkheimer misunderstood progressive moral preferences and to show how a revised progressive worldview coheres with hereditarianism while retaining its intuitive appeal to ordinary citizens.
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