whose dumb fucking idea was it anyway to not trust ourselves to defend the idea that individuals shouldn't be treated as if group tendencies were absolutes since individual variation swamps them, so we have to pretend that group tendencies don't exist, destroying all credibility
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You can phrase it so that it isn't technically a lie if that's important to you. "There's no actionable difference between group A and group B" or something.
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hardly useful, you still wind up saying "as hard as we pretend bias still doesn't go away" without any idea whether you're full of shit since you're pretending group tendencies don't exist so when you look at a survey of differential outcomes all you're allowed to see is bias
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