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Comment #23986111
>Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job and your reputation after going in front of the nation and saying "I think interracial marriages should be illegal"? That's…
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Comment #23878558
> Is it really a bad thing to not know algebra at the 8th grade? Knowing it is a better thing
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Comment #23765102
Competition for reproduction and resources between groups of genetically proximate organisms is the history of "life".
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Comment #23765080
I wonder why the real number isn't known.
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Comment #23765061
This idea that there was historical disadvantage to the Irish comes from a single photograph of a sign that says "Irish Need Not Apply". This is the equivalent of putting an indivi…
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Comment #23764622
Another interesting stat- 55% of Harvard graduate students are Jewish. https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/harvard-uni...
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Comment #23671633
Race isn't skin color, though [1]. Self-identified race maps to distinct genetic clusters with >99.8% accuracy [2]. 1: https://i.imgur.com/0uyOA.jpg 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov…
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Comment #23671181
Your statement is like claiming there is no scientific basis for family. Two people of the same race are more genetically related than half-siblings born to the same father and mot…
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Comment #23655371
Our knowledge of crime rates doesn't come form arrest records, but rather victims surveys. Yes, we know that certain neighborhoods/populations have higher rates of crime and not ju…
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Comment #23270132
Wealth can be used to boost anything. The ability to boost things you want is what makes wealth wealth.
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Comment #23270127
The SAT is intended as a metric for someone's future ability to achieve the things that constitute wealth, so it's good to hear they correlate. That's the entire purpose of it.
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Comment #23270079
Can you link the academic, journalist, politician, author, or executive who made the argument you're quoting, that slavery is good?
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Comment #23244198
He was probably using the word "man" in reference to Fox's biological sex rather than gender identity.
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Comment #23200811
There should be a bounty where any prisoner who solves one of the millennium problems is granted freedom. I feel like it'd help to reduce violence and focus the purposelessness of …