At what point will any of the self-professed "friends of science" -- the majority of HN posters for that matter -- sack up and allow themselves to even entertain the possibility that, in modeling disparate outcomes between ethnic groups, that the genetic term is almost certainly non-zero?
The trends in genomics, specifically ever more powerful GWAS studies on complex phenotypes (e.g. height, academic achievement and yes cognitive ability) are not breaking in favor of this blank slate world view.
Can someone point out the material difference(s) between the Asian quotas, which Harvard is stridently defending, and the Jewish quotas which were repealed and roundly reviled?
also hereditary high cognitive ability, i.e. population genetics. But you're not supposed to notice that because the Left wants Diversity (but without Disparity).
It would be remarkable that someone would fall on their sword like that today.
It'll be another couple of years before "The Flippening", i.e. scientists looking to cement their legacy doing the political calculation and deciding they'd rather risk some short term fallout vs joining Lyskenko and Lamarck in the history book.
That elaborate kabuki we saw from David Reich at Harvard a few months ago? It'll get even more entertaining in the coming months and years as that fig leaf continues to shrink.
"Moreover, an overall overrepresentation of Asians are admitted"
That was the case even with Jewish quotas, which were set to something like 15% of the student body. Still a 15x "over-representation" so what was the big deal?
So do you have problem with Jewish over-representation (which is far more than 10x)?
By analogy, the specific wavelength at which "orange" begins and ends is a ahem "social construct", ipso facto color has no scientific basis.
Interesting that author of that piece fixates on Morton and his skulls. But I see no mention of Stephen J Gould. I guess because his much more recent fraud makes Morton (and hereditarians) look good by comparison. Well, at least the Left has proven itself capable of memory holing not just their enemies but their inconvenient allies.
I understand now why the Left prefers to simply shout down their opposition. Their "reasoning" is so transparently "not even wrong" that the only thing left to do is not interrupt this enemy as they make their mistakes.
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2017/06/trust_and_diver.htm...