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How do you know what effect upbringing and cultural values has on math performance? You know because there's research for that. But you can't base any argument
by clusterfish 5y ago
How do you know what effect upbringing and cultural values has on math performance? You know because there's research for that.
But you can't base any argument on that when research into alternative (or complementary), genetics-based explanations is being stiffled. Or well you can, but that's just society-scale version of googling for statements that you agree with instead of questions that they're supposed to answer.
When you stiffle research directions for political reasons, you're doing politics, not science, and the arguments based on lack of stiffled research don't hold any more water than arguments based on no research.
- strogonoff 5y ago> society-scale version of googling for statements that you agree with instead of questions that they're supposed to answer Unfortunately, in practice science often turns out to be almost as much of a vehicle for confirming answers one already has in mind, rather than open-ended investigation.
- clusterfish 5y agoNothing is ever perfect. That's not a reason to deliberately make it worse than it normally is.