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- The game is to find some new arena to practice their obscurantism.
- There's enough complex terminology that they can raise doubt and raise the bar until the cows come home (and try to undermine the credibility of the other side by appearing to quibble meaningfully over the terms)
- What it comes down to is the Egal side can only criticize the hereditarian's data, but not produce a reason to believe their worldview. They depend on you already believing it. While the hered can criticize the egal's data, criticize their criticism of his data, and provide reason to accept his worldview
- I suspect they think we think it is purely genetic as per usual. These people dont understand what is being debated or the implications of their admissions. It also denotes a willful blindness to the prevailing zeitgeist of the day
- It's always just saying the evidence isnt up to their standards (as they present no empirical or theoretical reason why their position is even tenable). Which is the appeal to ignorance on their part, so I am just returning the favor. If they think their position is true because we cant meet their star trek standards for how much we need to prove, then I can say my position is true because we at least have something
- At the end of the day: how much hard evidence do you need, and how little hard evidence does the other side need to provide. Their position is treated as axiomatic so they just offer critiques of the controversial research by arguing it doesnt satisfy all their demands. But they never provide ex nihilo evidence for their position. Something which stands on its own and doesnt simply require you to already believe in it
- And there isnt a good theoretical reason to believe in equality, evolution doesnt do equal and doesnt arbitrarily stop. It's ultimately an impossible position
- Denials of IQ and race
- It's funny because we dont need to perfectly connect IQ to intelligence, just show that it matters for well-being in our economies more than other "intelligence tests". All we need to make judgments for the moment
- and race doesnt real (how this disputes the observation that blacks and whites are different 'somethings' even if you dislike race is beyond me)
- Find the genes!
- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/10/you-dont-need-genes-for-genetics/#.WgU2eflSy1s
- Current iteration: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1400/full
- It is missed (by those who cite this) that the usefulness of heritability is in comparisons between organisms or groups of them
- It is interpreted as a silver bullet because denialists think it allows them to ignore categories of evidence
- "Although the term ‘heritability’ is often misunderstood as speaking to the degree to which a certain trait's appearance in an individual is caused by genetic factors, the logic underlying the equation nullifies that conceptualization. ‘Heritability,’ explains author Matt Ridley, ‘is a slippery concept, much misunderstood. For a start, it is a population average, meaningless for any individual person: you cannot say that Hermia has more heritable intelligence than Helena. When somebody says that heritability of height is 90 percent, he does not and cannot mean that 90 percent of my inches come from genes and 10 percent from my food.’ Instead, he means that 90% of the variation in height in a group of people can be accounted for, statistically, by variations in those people's DNA. "
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