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Besides the insults, there are a couple of real scientific questions. Despite my better judgement... : 1. 'evolutionary pressure on traits' -> so what? It's im
by skosuri 6y ago
Besides the insults, there are a couple of real scientific questions. Despite my better judgement... :
1. 'evolutionary pressure on traits' -> so what? It's important, because we are usually much better powered at detecting purifying selection in traits.
2. As for the slanted eyes: why do you think there was no pressure? Assortative mating is a thing.. it's very prevalent in visible traits and really makes this hard.
3. Preference for height... umm ok - this is weird. There are plenty of known examples for purifying height selection in either direction. However, these are rare variants and not the major driver of height variation within bigger populations. Height is actually a good example for looking at variation within populations: https://elifesciences.org/articles/39702 https://elifesciences.org/articles/39702
Basically it says that population stratification is a major problem for things that are easily measurable like height (unlike intelligence, which is much harder to measure and way more likely to have known social covariates).
4. In general, you aren't even understanding the simplified responses that the authors are trying to explain, but also can't seem to grasp there might be more that you are not understanding – and just ascribe things to lack of imagination or political correctness of the authors.. who are world class geneticists. You can lead a camel to water...
- tomp 6y agoSorry I haven’t replied, I didn’t have the time to read the article yet, and your reply isn’t very substantial... If I understa correctly, your point is that there are things that are easy to see (matters for sexual selection) and/or measure (matters for science) and IQ is neither... but those aren’t the only causes of genetic differences? You also have survival pressure (presumably running faster would be here) and just random drift as well (presumably that’s how slanted eyes and blond hair first developed). You didn’t answer which of the options I listed regarding Jewish IQ is correct. Alternatively, why are humans smarter than chimps? Also, regarding your (4), scientists are notorious for submitting to pressure from the wokeness mob, and in touchy subjects like genetics in particular, so it’s not an unreasonable assumption on my part.