This paper is deemed so dangerous (evaluating an idea propounded by Darwin) that many people and entities went to great lengths to prevent anyone from reading it. arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04184… The story is here: quillette.com/2018/09/07/aca… #forbiddenpaper
The conceptual and methodological resistance to studying the variance instead of the mean of a distribution is also related to this absurd event of modern Lysenkoism. edge.org/response-detai… | @csmarcum @CharlieSeguin @GabrielRossman
Three out of four children with severe developmental delay are boys. And average IQ of boys and girls is indistinguishable.
Examining the variation in distributions, across categories, can shed light on lots of scientific conundrums, such as the response to treatment in RCT's. humannaturelab.net/publications/t… The second moment of a distribution is no less important than the first. 
Mathematician Tim Gowers offers a sensible critique of controversial paper (I'd quibble w a couple of his assertions & empirical observations). But he doesn't offer an opinion about the process by which this paper came to be suppressed. gowers.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/has… via @stevenstrogatz
