Sociology is one of the few fields that is not only unreliable, but systematically anti-reliable, especially when it comes to issues like race and gender, but also on issues about income distribution, and the causes of inequality. Pretty obvious why. As Moldbug said a long time ago, they've put all their chips on the blank slate dogma, and are willing to sacrifice the entire endeavor on it.
Having said that, there are a tiny number of really good sociologists, and many more good economists, who increasingly use genetic data to understand dynamics of equality, mate selection, etc.
These people are driven by ideology. They really want to matter and be a force of good.
Blank Slate is their dogma, like the bible is for a Christian. Thus, the environment has to be extremely important, there can be no doubt about it.
Btw an interesting study on classroom environment and its effect on academic achievement was done on identical twins. Some were in the same clasroom and others were separated.
If the teacher or other environmental factors have an effect, the twins who had been in different classrooms should be more different than those who had been together.
But, it turned out that there were no measurable effect.
Yes, Robert Rosenthal was a fraud. But, he never suffered for that. He remained a Harvard Professor until 1999 when he retired. Check his Wikipedia entry. Google him for a bit. You will find little to nothing about his fraudulent "Pygmalian" study from the late 1960s.
Sociology is one of the few fields that is not only unreliable, but systematically anti-reliable, especially when it comes to issues like race and gender, but also on issues about income distribution, and the causes of inequality. Pretty obvious why. As Moldbug said a long time ago, they've put all their chips on the blank slate dogma, and are willing to sacrifice the entire endeavor on it.
Having said that, there are a tiny number of really good sociologists, and many more good economists, who increasingly use genetic data to understand dynamics of equality, mate selection, etc.
These people are driven by ideology. They really want to matter and be a force of good.
Blank Slate is their dogma, like the bible is for a Christian. Thus, the environment has to be extremely important, there can be no doubt about it.
Btw an interesting study on classroom environment and its effect on academic achievement was done on identical twins. Some were in the same clasroom and others were separated.
If the teacher or other environmental factors have an effect, the twins who had been in different classrooms should be more different than those who had been together.
But, it turned out that there were no measurable effect.
One study examining the effect of classroom sharing on twins: https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/64/01/36.full.pdf
Yes, Robert Rosenthal was a fraud. But, he never suffered for that. He remained a Harvard Professor until 1999 when he retired. Check his Wikipedia entry. Google him for a bit. You will find little to nothing about his fraudulent "Pygmalian" study from the late 1960s.