When discussing racial or cultural traits, there's a tremendous politically correct force to avoid judgement. Think of how this article would have looked if we

When discussing racial or cultural traits, there's a tremendous politically correct force to avoid judgement. Think of how this article would have looked if we were comparing performance of applications or operating systems. Gone would be the deep explanations of "why" and the attempt to make all approaches equal but just a different mix of trade-offs. Instead, the article would have found output metrics that could be compared to decide which techniques were superior.