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This should get cert.

Then why not remove posts that inevitably lead to ideological battle? I do not see that you have banned the accounts of my interlocutors. I also do not see that my account was used…

Taking note of the context within which an acronym or abbreviation is used is part of being an informed reader. In this case, one does not even have to go to the link to get a clue…

Everyone I know (and know of) espouses obvious claptrap from time to time. If that is the sieve with which you denote undesirables to remove from your personal sphere, your circle …

Do think that Republicans are irrational? Are Democrats rational? What about Libertarians or Greens? Irrational or no?

Most people would welcome a government that is merely indifferent to them.

And self-replicating robots at that! They will just require food, water, and shelter as inputs.

How do you (unconsciously) select for attributes that do not exist? It was not until several generations that the first physiological changes began to be observed and those were in…

What is a racist? Is this a fixed idea or does it change year to year and depend on the context? Shouldn't we be careful about writing off people based on fluctuating social mores?…

I dispute that avoiding obesity requires either exercise or high-quality nutrition. It is simply a matter of maintaining a caloric balance at a healthy weight. This can be effectiv…

Ideas are expressed by people. Does every person deserve serious consideration?

Ideology is a relatively new (taking the long view of human history) mechanism for demarcating tribal affiliation that is a uniquely powerful tool for sowing discord and disunity a…

Dmitri Belyayev's decades-long study on silver foxes produced animals that began to distinguish markedly different morphological features (bushy tails, floppy ears, spotted coats) …

What does someone who has spent his academic career with a tailored education program that provides extra time to complete tasks and take tests do upon entering the workforce? Will…

Obesity is a sign of improved living conditions that is also a sign of declining living conditions. The former conditions are largely out of the individual's control while the latt…

Why do you characterize normal parental investment as privilege? Is it to exculpate parents who neglect their children? Again, as the students in The Promise School not only enjoye…

"Society" is just another tribe, one that may wish to eradicate your culture. In a multicultural society, whose tribe is deemed "problematic" and whose is "normal?"

I was having some fun employing a different definition in my reply. Think natalist policies geared toward the successful.

Please substantiate your claim that poor white students receive these benefits, to include "twice as much" schooling.

Yes, poor white students contribute to the black-white achievement gap despite being poor. That is precisely why I brought up that population.

Please dispute a single fact. In fact, your comment is a lie as my first "contribution" was a simple one-line assertion based on information I happened to be aware of.[0] It was on…

Your alternatives are bounded by a lack of imagination.

I am to understand that white students, in aggregate, receive twice as much schooling as black students? And thus the black-white achievement gap?

How is spending twice as long at school correcting a deficiency? Are you sure you understand what a deficiency is? If spending twice as long at school can improve the results of th…

Perhaps, if humans are mostly fungible commodities that respond uniformly to inputs. And RIP if you dare suggest the inverse: subsidizing the reproduction of high achievers.