Best critique of the Reich OpEd piece I’ve seen to date has been from @ianholmes but I can’t find the thread now...this BuzzFeed piece is... not as good
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Secretly dead all along 👻 ☠️ @ianholmesThat David Reich NYT op-ed is a lovely lesson in admixture. In the opening paragraphs, races are one concept (social constructs) and populations another. But thanks to some heavy backcrossing, by the end of the op-ed the two concepts are almost indistinguishableShow this thread1 reply 3 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
I think Ian’s parsing if the linguistics of the OpEd is right on. I want to contrast that with the BuzzFeed piece which itself seems to confound population with race from top to bottom
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Right - I liked parts of the Buzzfeed piece, but it kind of muddies that point. Also, the bit about “given 15 million bases you can always find statistically significant variation” made me wince
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Or the sickle cell bit? I’m sympathetic to their motives but...
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It's rather ironic that in writing a piece that criticizes a geneticist for being cavalier to the point of being wrong about social science, these (mostly) social scientists are cavalier to the point of being wrong about genetics
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but ofc "cavalier" implies "inappropriate neglect"; and what amount of neglect of soc psych p-hacking and auto-ethnography could ever be considered excessive?
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