Re:An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
by samastur on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:53AM
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I don't know. Her statement about normal distribution having expectations about humans is not worthy of a high-schooler.
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Re:An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
by acdha on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:09AM
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Can you explain in your own words, not Khan's, what you think her argument was — don't forget to cover the linked article she was referring to[1] — and why you believe it's incorrect?
1. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.6757...
Re:An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
by jhbadger on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:58PM
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That linked article never even mentions the normal distribution -- it is just talking about how culture often misdefines "normal people" as straight white people.
Whatever the merits of that argument, that's not what the SciAm article was claiming -- which was a either ignorance or a deliberate confusing of the popular and technical meanings of the word "normal". She might as well said that magnetic fields have to do with the plots of land farmers grow crops on because they are both "fields".