Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #behavioralgenetics
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1/ Thoughts and comments about an interview with K. Paige Harden in the 9/12/2021 ed. of The Guardian. The interviewer is Zoë Corbyn. Harden is promoting her behavioral genetics (BG) field, and her book "The Genetic Lottery." UOS, all quotes from Harden.
theguardian.com/science/2021/s…
theguardian.com/science/2021/s…
2/ "I wrote this book first for my fellow scientists, who haven’t necessarily seen the relevance of genetics for their own work or have been afraid to incorporate it because of these associations."
Nothing new. BG has been trying to convince "scientists" of this for decades.
Nothing new. BG has been trying to convince "scientists" of this for decades.
3/ "There is a large body of scientific knowledge being ignored lest the eugenics genie be let out of the bottle."
Not true. BG claims and methods have been integrated into psychology and other behavioral fields for many years.
Not true. BG claims and methods have been integrated into psychology and other behavioral fields for many years.
aei.org/articles/the-2…
Extravagant success of Ashkenazi #Jews in wide range of intellectual domains serves as solid refutation to already exhausted #woke narrative of oppression, victimhood, & intersectionality. Why?/1
#IQ #psychology #intelligenceresearch #groupdifferences
Extravagant success of Ashkenazi #Jews in wide range of intellectual domains serves as solid refutation to already exhausted #woke narrative of oppression, victimhood, & intersectionality. Why?/1
#IQ #psychology #intelligenceresearch #groupdifferences
"In the first half of the 20th century, despite pervasive and continuing social discrimination against Jews throughout the Western world, despite the retraction of legal rights, and despite the Holocaust, Jews won 14 % of Nobel Prizes in literature, chemistry, physics..."/2
"..., and medicine/physiology. In the second half of the 20th century, when Nobel Prizes began to be awarded to people from all over the world, that figure rose to 29 %. So far, in the 21st century, it has been 32 %. Jews constitute ~0.2 % of the world’s population."/3
