whereas the underlying mechanism by which black people are supposedly stupider doesnt have a good or coherent explanation
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What do you mean by "explanation"? Does the mechanism where Irish people have more red hair have a "good explanation"?
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Replying to @slatestarcodex @pnin1957 and
we understand very clearly which genes cause irish people to have red hair and we have good theories as to why they were selected
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our ideas about intelligence are a lot less good!
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I don't think we actually know that much about red hair at all. There are theories, but there are theories for intelligence too.
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Replying to @slatestarcodex @pnin1957 and
they've isolated the genes for hair color is what i mean. obviously the evolutionary explanations have to be merely theories
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If you don't like the hair color analogy, height would also work, and I know we don't know 100% of genes there.
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Replying to @slatestarcodex @pnin1957 and
height and hair color also have the virtues of being easy to measure and unambiguously defined whereas "intelligence" is the opposite
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Replying to @mtsw @slatestarcodex and
irish people are a great example because different forms of the same arguments used for intelligence of blacks/hispanics were used for them
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Replying to @mtsw @slatestarcodex and
back when irish people were considered impoverished and backwards and instead of basically the same as other whites
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Yes, I agree. You can also find similar errors in the other direction.
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Replying to @slatestarcodex @mtsw and
Eg there was a whole movement that schizophrenia couldn't be genetic, and schizophrenics were just discriminated-against poor people.
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