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Strawman Sex is easy to incorporate. Race is more difficult because vanishingly little work has been done with a concept of race based on anything resembling
by Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y ago
Strawman
Sex is easy to incorporate. Race is more difficult because vanishingly little work has been done with a concept of race based on anything resembling real population genetics, but it's not impossible in theory. Hint: if you really care about human biodiversity, you'll spend most of your time in Africa and some isolated islands, not looking at brown people in the west.
The issue is GxE, where we see loads of racists and sexists just patently forget about 'E' and conclude that women or brown people are genetically inferior. Some will try to gussy that up as 'different' rather than inferior, but the dog-whistles may as well be air-raid sirens.
'Data science' is fine if you're AB testing websites. When you try to do real science, you'll find that the utter lack of research experience is .. a bit of a problem. Caring about PhDs isn't credentialism, it's wanting a plumber that has worked with pipes before. You have to actually perform research to get decent at it. It usually takes about a decade before you can honestly do it independently. If you can look back at what you did a year ago without cringing, you're not making that progress.
Some schmuck with PANDAS and a Bio101 class 8 years ago isn't a scientist.