Come on, you know better than that. Do you really need to go over the redhead example again?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bechhof
if the argument is "hurr durr you can dye your hair red" yes you can and also (i) interventions on more-basal biological features tend to be well-understood to the point of triviality and (ii) knowledge of biological parameter space is vastly closer to complete than it is in econ
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oh nice yeah that's a tidy way of looking at it
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Replying to @eigenrobot
No it really isn’t. Read that Turkheimer post please.
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why dont you point out the specific error you think is being made that cripples the analysis like we learned in seminars instead of gesturing wildly at another paper
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Because I want you to read the piece. It isn’t just that the derivative is different; it’s an unestimable function of the whole environment space which can go all over the place.
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We should get back to the central point here; there is far too little evidence available to determine whether anything related to both race and socialization is genetic or social. But everyone reasserts their prior instead of saying "OK, we have no real answer based on the data."
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I agree with you about the general point, but I suspect you're making an incorrect assumption about my priors. The main territory I'm interested in is the possibility of getting to a valid causal interpretation of generic complex phenotypic outcomes predicted nicely by genotype.
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bechhof
Nathaniel correctly points out that it's irresponsible to make causal inferences - especially for policy - based on that ability to predict. So either you're talking past one another, or I'm misunderstanding something.
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