Re:An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
by acdha on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:35AM
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> You mean the paper that she co-authored that makes the same mistake, one that was roundly and harshly criticized by scientists and statisticians?
Yes, the one which was in a peer-reviewed journal. If it was so roundly condemned you should have no trouble doing more than drive-by accusations.
Re:An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
by naasking on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:46AM
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> you should have no trouble doing more than drive-by accusations
McLemore didn't see fit to do more than drive by accusations of Wilson, so I'm not sure why I should bother extending her more courtesy than she extended to the recently deceased.
Other scientists have already commented on this widely anyway, so you can find them if you're actually interested.
The normal distribution does not entail there is any such concept as a "default human".
Furthermore, that paper shows the corrupt logic inherent to a lot of woke criticism. You're tarred as a racist if you claim there are biological differences between races, while these same people cry that existing science is racist because it's not accounting for the biological differences between races.