On fifth thing, I agree Vox found ppl who disagree with him, but he represents majority scientific position. See eghttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4804158/ …
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perhaps people who are very interested in racial IQ differences and devote their career to them have certain biases that affect their work?
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Replying to @mtsw @slatestarcodex and
and these sorts of people would both be biased towards confirming murray's conclusions and to thinking he is a worthy figure to engage with
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Agree this is a possibility. Also possible that fact that you'll get physically attacked for claiming diffs is bias against doing so.
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but the people who do stake out ground on this seem to, if anything, enjoy the negative attention
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I don't think it prevents people from joining field, I think it prevents people from reporting certain conclusions.
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Replying to @slatestarcodex @mtsw and
Being in field is perfectly fine as long as you have the right opinion.
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sorry im a little unclear as to what you're claiming here?
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I mean you don't get in trouble for researching race&iq and reporting that it's zero, you get in trouble for researching & saying it's real.
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if anything, within in the field, much of the funding seems to come from orgs whose agenda is to push race science (e.g. pioneer fund)
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I think you're neglecting the fact that Pioneer Fund is one fund, and 100% of the rest of society is pushing the opposite.
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Replying to @slatestarcodex @mtsw and
Suppose you want to be a Harvard professor. Would you prefer to have "supported Murray" or "debunked Murray" on resume?
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Sure. For example, Harvard scientist Steven Jay Gould's refutation of Murray is not very good, but that doesn't prove Murray correct
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