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Pretending to Joust Determinists

Oct 10th, 2017
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  1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26413946
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  3. We dont actually have to establish some causal gene-to-behavior or hormone-to-behavior pathway to make claims about variation being partly genetic in origin
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  5. Example:
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  7. I could be convinced if anyone could produce a study showing a clear causal mechanism of complex human behavior from low level biology
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  9. https://twitter.com/Cedarwooded/status/917955780149522432
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20171011035125/https://twitter.com/joftius/status/917775334082334726
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  12. This is beyond the realm of modern science, and has no bearing on whether we can make judgments about the source of variation and whether we should expect equality. Or whether blank slatist ideas have merit and the expensive social engineering and restorative justice programs based on this are a good idea. An inability to make useful predictions from a genome does not disprove citing biology as a factor, just as not being able to chart all the ways socialization can affect someone doesnt disprove citing the environment as a factor. What matters is if we can see evidence for these things mattering, not if we can make deterministic predictions with it yet
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