How about we start with all the material and non-pseudoscientific ways that students are disadvantaged? Let’s start with the entrenched wealth from which you benefit
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This article isn’t pseudo-scientific, and represents a study with an N of over a million. Considering that doesn’t eliminate other considerations, but the point is that it appears relevant
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Apply it to the individual that you can select for systematically and get back to me, which was this other dude’s point and a thing you cannot do
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Heritability isn't a measure of "genetic-ness", it's probably not half, and it's certainly not a single value for all humans across different environments/samplings. This isn't very predictive and not really helpful unless you want to enact eugenics.
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It's more than half, but it varies with age. The idea that genetics aren't relevant is pretty absurd. Because chimpanzees are less intelligent than humans not because of genes, but because of chimp culture and environment ;)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/ …
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For an explicit rebuttal to Plomin's thinking see also this paper by Turkheimer https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fff6/822caea2f3d77b7c6337deed7f0602ed00e5.pdf …
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Stephen Hsu has some very interesting videos on his approach and discusses some of the potential just a couple months ago. We have gotten height to a few cm.https://youtu.be/gw0Wqd_D3_o
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I don't know how anyone can not get dystopian visions when a progressive starts talking about genetics and fairness and harnessing science to create a more equal society.
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Sir, which book of yours should I start reading? And as a 19 YO will I be able to comprehend it?
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I would recommend his newest book, Enlightenment Now.
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Goodreads says its a follow-up of The Better Angels of Our Nature, so can I read it as a stand alone? And more importantly does it require too much intellectual ability to comprehend it? Because I tried reading Nietzsche, and pretty much everything went above my head.
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much clearer than Nietzsche. I'd say read Better Angels first
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This guy is a friend and colleague of Noam Chomsky but still insists all progressives believe in the 'blank slate'. Drives me nuts
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Please let me know if I've got this right. Economic success has some nebulous relationship to formal education, formal education depends on winning the genetic lottery; therefore, we need to offset somehow the natural benefits of the genetic lottery in the name of justice.
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Typical progressive to present this as a revelation while my grandmother already knew people are different. She also knew forceful intervention to reach 'equality' always leads to an disastrous totalitarian regime (Animal farm 2.0)
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"No one earned his DNA sequence, yet some of us are benefiting enormously from it. By showing us the links between genes and educational success, this new study reminds us that everyone should share in our national prosperity, regardless of which variants he happens to inherit"
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