Re:Scott Alexander's email shows staunch support for scienti...
by lyssa17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:10PM
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Yep. Recent debunking (once again) of their canon by Kevin Bird in an article titled "No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection"
That's not what people who talk about "HBD" being bad are doing. My comment in response to andrewflnr has more, but the criticism is not that intelligence or athletic ability aren't genetically based at all, it's "HBD"/eugenics focus on genetic heritability to the exclusion of everything else, ignores evidence to the contrary, and does so for the explicit purpose of harming people of other races. They also ignore evidence that while it is variable, that variability is not racially determined, e. g. is not correlated to the genetic differences that create phenotypes we categorize as "races".