When you hear "privilege" or "discrimination" always think "genetic confounding" (psyarxiv.com/j5x7g/) or risk wasting billions on futile efforts (washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sh…). 
80% of today's wealthy Chinese are descendants of pre-communism elites. ft.com/content/a25795…
Land lottery in Georgia (1822). Family lines of men who won land were no better off than those of non-winners. academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab…
The wealth shock of ending slavery in US south, but the (ex)slaveowners quickly became rich again. nber.org/papers/w25700
Today's rich families in Florence, Italy, were rich 700 years ago vox.com/2016/5/18/1169…
In Mexico, economic opportunity increases the closer your skin gets to white qz.com/1014257/a-new-…
Those with fairer skin are more likely to have a university education; are more likely to go to college; tend to be in positions of power.
Those with fairer skin are more likely to have a university education; are more likely to go to college; tend to be in positions of power.
Theories that try to explain the underrepresentation of different groups in terms of discrimination, racism, and privilege are unable to explain how Jews have consistently outperformed their oppressors and why East and Southeast Asian immigrants outperform the white majorities.
That isn't to say that environmental factors such as institutions don't play a role. They obviously do.
But it is naive to rule out genetically determined population differences. axisofordinary.tumblr.com/post/186584192…
Don't let ideological blinkers make you look like a fool.
"In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization..."
How social science research is flawed due to its failure to consider genetic confounding: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2017-… (via @Ion_Ramaru)
“We know that people who are more closely genetically-related are more similar to each other. Human behaviour is heritable; all of it. So why do large-scale, longitudinal, social science studies that are not genetically-informative still get funded?” quillette.com/2020/08/21/sci…
