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Being anti-science is part of the identity of the left on some issues. If I say that there are more male programmers than females at Big Tech because (1) the a

Being anti-science is part of the identity of the left on some issues. If I say that there are more male programmers than females at Big Tech because (1) the average level of interest and aptitude of males and females at programming differs (2) males have a greater variance in aptitudes than females, putting a larger fraction of them in the right tail of aptitude people on the right may engage with the argument, whereas people on the left will try to cancel me. I'm not saying the statements above are necessarily correct but that they are scientific questions, not moral ones. The left is also unwilling to think scientifically about racial differences -- in fact such thinking is called "scientific racism".

lern_too_spel 5y ago
They are scientific questions with scientific answers. For the particular issues you mentioned, it would be great if the scientific answer supported that more women could work in big tech or that race does not determine intellectual ability, so we shouldn't discount environmental factors unless we can certainly rule them out. For the latter, we have plenty of evidence that race doesn't determine intellectual ability, yet the right continues to pretend that we don't. For the former, there is no strong evidence either way given what we have seen happen in the medical field over the past few decades, yet the right opposes any policies encouraging women to enter the field.