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The views in the article represent the scientific consensus. Scott Alexander covers some of the most salient points here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagg…

I appreciate the thoughtful response. I understand the argument you're making about economic signaling, and indeed YC(b)'s milquetoast declaration of encouraging women and minority…

Burke's an interesting case. Although revered by many contemporary American conservatives, he was a member of Britain's more left-wing political party, the Whigs (the counterpart t…

The ancien régime was deeply flawed, but don't forget that the winners write history. Indeed, we live inside the Revolution still, so you can trust barely anything you've ever read…

I just found the obituary [1] and was considering replying with the "correct" quote, but did some more digging and discovered that you are absolutely correct [2]: the Times has, wi…

"Group X tends to do Y." "How dishonest. You're saying all members of Group X do Y and should therefore be ignored." "I said none of those things. I said Group X tends to do Y, whi…

They want to censor what might be called secular heresy —anything that questions the reigning "mainstream" (progressive) orthodoxy.

ill-defined cohort The group I mentioned is precisely defined, and 100% opt-in—it's the set of all people who say "I'm only intolerant of intolerance." all members of the group are…

It's also a lie. Try engaging the "I'm only intolerant of intolerance" crowd on, say, climate change, abortion, or the death penalty. It takes tortuous logical contortions to frame…

This is well-done, but I wish such treatments spent more effort establishing that climate change projections are (a) reliable and (b) catastrophic. Those two points are the essence…

Indeed, there's a lot of Schadenfreude going on here. The chickens are coming home to roost.

It's not about politeness; it's about political power. In particular, the definition of "polite" is entirely asymmetric, with "marginalized groups" (basically, everyone but straigh…

I believe that many people genuinely feel unsafe when in the presence of someone whose political beliefs offend them. The problem arises when that person, or those beliefs, do not …

It's disappointing to see a potentially valuable educational program frame its activities in terms of closing a diversity gap rather than simply helping people. Can you imagine a s…

Understanding Human History is one of my favorite books. I finished it and immediately reread it. This was especially instructive given that a decade ago I read Jared Diamond's Gun…

accuse and manhandle vast numbers of innocent Americans of race A One doesn't need to advocate accusing and manhandling to think the police should use statistically valid inference…

I didn't say there are no valid examples of bias, just that many people assume unequal outcomes must result from unequal opportunity, ignoring the possibility of real group differe…

Hey rewqfdsa, maybe shoot me an email some time. Address is in profile.

could easily be either Or both. They're not mutually exclusive. Do Jamaican sprinters excel because they grow up around other sprinters or because they are blessed with natural abi…

A straightforward application of evolutionary biology to Homo sapiens yields group differences as the null hypothesis. You've done nothing but construct a ridiculous strawman to re…

Indeed. The problem is that people frequently infer unfair rules from unequal outcomes, without taking into account the possibility of systematic group differences. Alan: I believe…

Indeed, there's pretty much nothing bawdier in English literature than "The Miller's Tale" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miller%27s_Tale ). Some Shakespeare comes close, thou…

sex outside marriage isn't so much taboo as explicitly ruled out by definition You're using different definitions. By "sex outside of marriage," the previous commenter means "two u…

It has one star on Yelp. At the time of writing, there are only two reviews total, one of them obviously post-Odom. just 12 of the state’s 16 counties Just? 12/16 = 75%. That's not…