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Professional geneticists are aware of cases They are also aware of statistics, and confirmation bias, right?
by byrneseyeview 17y ago
Professional geneticists are aware of cases
They are also aware of statistics, and confirmation bias, right?
- tokenadult 17y agoHow would confirmation bias tend to run on this issue?
- byrneseyeview 17y agoDepends on how many people grew up watching Sesame Street and listening to NPR, compared to how many people grew up watching... uh... all those mainstream media sources that take the yes-there-is-human-biodiversity side of the human biodiversity debate.
- tokenadult 17y agoI referred to professional geneticists, persons who enter a graduate program of study of genetics and gain a Ph.D. and academic position in that discipline. From above: Professional geneticists are aware of cases of monozygotic twins being quite discordant in height, IQ, or various other phenotypical characteristics of interest. Some of those cases are reported in detail in the better textbooks on human genetics.