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Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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> the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requires this percentage to be over 50) to have a chance of reproducing bears no relation to the world as we know it

In early humans only the top 16% of males mated

Most people mate now, due to religious/society-enforced monogamy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2833377/

Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?

Given that "race" is a social construct...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-gen...

Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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post #11

> the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requires this percentage to be over 50) to have a chance of reproducing bears no relation to the world as we know it In early humans only the top 16% of males mated Most people mate now, due to religious/society-enforced monogamy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2833377/

Not sure who is downvoting you, this seems to be correct?

Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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This is headline and article appear to be just a way to sneak a non-mathematical position into questions of supposed mathematical censorship. True or not, suppressed or not, the claim being described can't be described as a "Mathematical truth". It's a paper in what could be described as theoretical biology and theoretical biology making a point. IE, there's no theoretical math that anywhere near this model - no one'…

Yes, this is about science, not mathematics. But scientific results are open to being question in their methodology and in the interpretation of their results. Mathematics is either correct or it isn't. This is a pretty blatant attempt of shifting something from one category to the other.

Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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post #6

Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?

Because we have a long history of using differences as a justification for subjugation.

Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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post #6

Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?

> the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable

This was a case some decades ago. Read the introduction to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) - even the use of the word "race" is problematic today.

Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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post #6

Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?

Because we have a long history of using differences as a justification for subjugation.

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Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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post #6

Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?

> the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable This was a case some decades ago. Read the introduction to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) - even the use of the word "race" is problematic today.

Could we use the word 'breed' then, instead of race? I guarantee you that if you showed me a mixed room of hundreds of native Danes and Sentinelese - I could classify them as easily as one could classify chihuahuas vs great danes.

Re: Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

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post #6

Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?

Given that "race" is a social construct... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-gen...

Could an alien with no human social constructions differentiate between Bantu people and historically native Irish people?
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