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East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
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Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#22I can't judge whether this is a good paper or not, and I think it's really cool that someone with only a bachelors degree (like myself) can get a paper published without first doing a PhD. However, the anti-"woke" part of this article seems so odd to me. Given all the wacky "science" from Nazi scientists that "research" differences between races leading to genocide, it seems completely logical to me that you jump thr…
science research lead to genocide? why did you make that up? why do imagine some paper review is the bulwark against mass killing?
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't follow. The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. Good on him for sticking with his hypothesis far enough to research it thoroughly, write it up, and publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, and now that he has done that work, he might start to turn heads in a Ph.D program. But otherwise, rejection from Ph.D programs after applying w…
> The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. He was specifically told he was rejected for doing forbidden research. Sure he might have been rejected anyway even if he had been researching something else, but let's not overlook the reasons he was given.
Sure, but that doesn't really modify the point. Those fields are "forbidden" (the publication of his paper demonstrates they are not; they are unpopular having generated significantly negative outcomes and no shortage of dead-ends) for a reason.
"The secret to my radiation-proof space suit was interspersing microscopic mercury-selenium pellets in the fabric of the suit with quantum properties that match the wavelength of ionizing radiation at a ~"
"Oh, you're using mercury. In fabric. That goes on human skin. Okay, now we really need to see a prototype. And your health trials."
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Science has more than just a replication issue. One of many reasons that public trust in institutions has been almost entirely eroded.
Sorry, I don't follow. The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. Good on him for sticking with his hypothesis far enough to research it thoroughly, write it up, and publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, and now that he has done that work, he might start to turn heads in a Ph.D program. But otherwise, rejection from Ph.D programs after applying w…
> The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs
Isn't the PhD program where you're supposed to generate the track record of research?
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't follow. The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. Good on him for sticking with his hypothesis far enough to research it thoroughly, write it up, and publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, and now that he has done that work, he might start to turn heads in a Ph.D program. But otherwise, rejection from Ph.D programs after applying w…
> The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. He was specifically told he was rejected for doing forbidden research. Sure he might have been rejected anyway even if he had been researching something else, but let's not overlook the reasons he was given.
For me personally I require more evidence than a few quotes that do not appear to actually be direct quotations to accept his conclusion that the reason he was rejected was PhD programs were too "woke". It is possible, but it's also possible that he misunderstood what they were trying to tell him.
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't follow. The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. Good on him for sticking with his hypothesis far enough to research it thoroughly, write it up, and publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, and now that he has done that work, he might start to turn heads in a Ph.D program. But otherwise, rejection from Ph.D programs after applying w…
> The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs Isn't the PhD program where you're supposed to generate the track record of research?
Many people who get into PhD programs have some level of undergraduate research (typically performed in a lab, alongside grad students and a professor). When a graduate acceptance committee is evaluating applications, signals like "I have worked with a professor", "wrote an undergrad thesis", and "was coauthor and published in a peer-reviewed journal" cause applicants to be ranked more highly than peers who lack those signals.
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#27I too have read Never in Anger, the ethnography mentioned in this blog post, and the way I found it was by reading a survey of egalitarian societies called Hierarchy in the Forest, by Christopher Boehm. Many of the personality traits that the author seems to think are special about people who share the East Asian phenotype are actually common amongst fiercely egalitarian societies. It is normal to highly police socio…
Something can be special without being unique. That there exist a handful of other cultures with similar traits, does not disprove those traits are not also selected-for by cold climates, or (in at least some cases) genetic in origin.
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#28Per David Reich:
>10-20% of the ancestors of Eurasian people are neanderthal
>West African populations have up to 19% "Ghost DNA", belonging to an extinct species their ancestors interbred with
>Southeast Asians have DNA of the extinct Denisovan species, as much as 3-5% in the aboriginal people of Papua New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines
>These aboriginals also have DNA belonging to a now extinct, but not yet discovered hominid species
I'm sure the implications of all these findings have not yet been discovered but it's exciting to see them explored
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. He was specifically told he was rejected for doing forbidden research. Sure he might have been rejected anyway even if he had been researching something else, but let's not overlook the reasons he was given.
For me personally I require more evidence than a few quotes that do not appear to actually be direct quotations to accept his conclusion that the reason he was rejected was PhD programs were too "woke". It is possible, but it's also possible that he misunderstood what they were trying to tell him.
Here is the additional (circumstantial) evidence you requested:
The leading journal Nature Human Behaviour recently made this practice official in an editorial effectively announcing that it will not publish studies that show the wrong kind of differences between human groups. [..] the National Institutes of Health now withholds access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may wander into forbidden territory - https://www.city-journal.org/article/dont-even-go-there
Re: East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't follow. The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. Good on him for sticking with his hypothesis far enough to research it thoroughly, write it up, and publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, and now that he has done that work, he might start to turn heads in a Ph.D program. But otherwise, rejection from Ph.D programs after applying w…
> The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs; of course he was rejected. He was specifically told he was rejected for doing forbidden research. Sure he might have been rejected anyway even if he had been researching something else, but let's not overlook the reasons he was given.
> He was specifically told he was rejected for doing forbidden research.
Or, that's what he told us. Also, I've done my PhD and I don't think I've ever seen a graduate program telling a candidate why they were rejected. It is always the standard "There are more qualified candidates than we can accommodate and we could not accept everyone, I hope you understand."
...which makes me a little bit suspicious about the whole tale.