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The Hereditarian Hypothesis and Scientific Racism
- Bostonian 7y agoThe author does not show why Jensen et al. were wrong but merely criticizes their funding sources. Racial differences in academic achievement in the U.S. have been intractable. No Child Left Behind, passed in 2002, heavily incentivized school districts to close racial gaps. They could not. It is reasonable to wonder why.
- aiscapehumanity 7y agoEpigenetics is obviously much more likely than genetic.There are growing indications on how environments socially and chemically(as lead levels in most poorer areas for example) differ have effects on gene expression. These changes while malllable are also inheritable. Also, no child left behind is a joke policy especially when th edu system itself is lackluster.