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by evolve2017 9y ago
I did not mean to be belligerent in my response and I'm sorry if I offended you. As I said above, in the Western world, sanitation and other interventions both contributed to our current state of health. As the graph I linked to shows,
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I'm unfortunately on mobile and can't write much - however, my understanding is that there is still some debate about the benefits of medication vs sanitation in overall mortality in Western countries . While this doesn't ne
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by evolve2017 9y ago
This is actually a great question - take a look at this discussion from 2015. This isn't my area of expertise, but my understanding is that elephants have many more copies of TP53 , a gene that plays a critical role in regulating the
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think we're drifting away from the author's article. His statement about 'lowering the bar' with respect to decreasing false negatives directly implies a relationship between candidate quality and the false negative ra
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I see what you're saying about the bias-awareness intervention. For your last sentence, I did not write, and did not mean to imply anything about the number of false-positive (FP) 'diversity' candidates vs FP non-'divers
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Thanks for your response! This isn't a pharmaceutical trial but there's no reason why we can't follow along with the author's analogy of 'false negatives'. Here are his words from 'The Harm of Google'
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Just for people who might come along later: It looks like the author is talking about setting a threshold, as in the context of creating a test. Please have a look at [1]. In this setting, it is not possible to decrease the false-negative r
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Totally agree! Especially as a PhD student in genetics. Just wanted to put out the point that race as we understand it does not map cleanly onto distinct phenotypes.
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I replied elsewhere but in case you didn't see it: It looks like the author is talking about setting a threshold, as in the context of creating a test. Please have a look at [1]. In this setting, it is not possible to decrease the fa
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Please correct me if I err - it's been some time since my college statistics class. It looks like the author is talking about setting a threshold, as in the context of creating a test. Please have a look at [1]. In this setting, it is
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Thanks for the ad hominem attack :) If you look through my post history, you'll see that I made this account to talk about another article about a week ago. EDIT: I can't respond to you, unfortunately. I'm sorry we've re
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by evolve2017 9y ago
It seems like you're open to learning more about genetics (I think...) so I'll share some interesting findings that don't really fit with the popular conception of race. It turns out that the most genetic variability lies bet
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by evolve2017 9y ago
There's a lot to be said about the current trend of privileged (read Western, perhaps wealthy, perhaps white, perhaps male) people to bemoan whatever concessions are made to the minority group but I'll leave that aside. I believe
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I'm not sure if you read his document, where he talks about Google having lowered the standards for its employees. But I'll leave that to the side - there's no reason to think that many of the differences he describes aren&#x
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by evolve2017 9y ago
You're highlighting another big problem these days, slavish reverence for the 'best schools'. I will also get a PhD from Harvard, and from a more selective program than this person. Yet I recognize the limits of my knowledge.
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think you're doing contortions here. He says that Google 'has created' (past tense) a discriminatory hiring practice. Presumably his coworkers were hired in the past and not the present or future. Thus, the hiring practices
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by evolve2017 9y ago
First, I agree that non-hormonal contraception decreases a lot of the risk associated with hormonal contraception (almost tautological, but worth stating). Second, there is no increase in mortality between women who use oral contraceptive p
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by evolve2017 9y ago
This is definitely a trend but it is one I do not suspect will change any time soon. Just to put things in perspectives for people who have not experienced medical school: > 50% of students I knew (secretly) spent thousands of dollars o
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by evolve2017 9y ago
A recent study that peripherally relates to our discussion came up on my facebook feed: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/recession-proof
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by evolve2017 9y ago
Incidentally, I'll be starting a PhD in a human genetics laboratory, but I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of literature. This seems like a reasonably accessible (college-biology level) discussion of what evolution w
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I guess I would need to see an analysis of whether there's been any change in human allele frequencies. I suspect there hasn't. But to your example, one issue with the farmed fish is that they now constitute a closed gene pool - w
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I don't think you can remove a discussion about changes in allele frequencies from environments. Thus, making 'other things being equal' is not a reasonable premise from which to discuss evolution. I do see the argument you a
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I think you're misunderstanding my point, but maybe I shouldn't have taken vertebrates as an example; we can of course imagine some island where massive selection pressures lead to speciation. I would be interested if you have suc
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by evolve2017 9y ago
I would be very interested to read an academic paper that made this point. 200 years is a blink of an eye in almost any vertebrate's evolutionary time. Also, to support your claim, one would need evidence that the child mortality of th