It's a lot easier to "fix" this problem if people accept the genetic explanation. Imagine people like Michelle and Barack Obama having 5 children instead of 2. And Floyd Mayweather having none instead of 5. The problem will fix itself within a few generations.
This is perhaps THE topic that adversarial collaboration would help elucidate. We need a study(ies) written and conducted by people who fall on all levels of the opinion spectrum to come together and design agreed upon experiments to try and get to the bottom of this.
I'm pessimistic it'll be happening anytime soon though.
As professors like E.O. Wilson and Steven Pinker learned the hard way, the Blank Slate is the most sacred piece of dogma for Leftists (and for the liberals who are usually also fundamentalists when it comes to racial issues).
The Blank Slate is the skeleton key for the Left project of "socialist liberation", which is predicated on the idea that we're all interchangeable meat widgets that can be properly programmed with "critical consciousness" as long as a Left commissar can sink their teeth into our brains at as young an age as possible.
They will never relinquish it, no matter what facts intervene, and will viciously attack anyone who threatens it, because the Blank Slate (in their minds) gives them carte blanche to reprogram all of us into members of their cultish political project.
There’s a brand of conservative policy that recognizes the significance of luck in social outcomes. It is the basis for conservative subsidy for kids and healthcare. To my mind, high or low IQ is another variety of luck, and could justify conservative subsidies, if a readily available proxy for individual IQ was identified. Earning are probably a rough proxy, but I don’t have any notion of how rough that would be.
It's a lot easier to "fix" this problem if people accept the genetic explanation. Imagine people like Michelle and Barack Obama having 5 children instead of 2. And Floyd Mayweather having none instead of 5. The problem will fix itself within a few generations.
This is perhaps THE topic that adversarial collaboration would help elucidate. We need a study(ies) written and conducted by people who fall on all levels of the opinion spectrum to come together and design agreed upon experiments to try and get to the bottom of this.
I'm pessimistic it'll be happening anytime soon though.
As professors like E.O. Wilson and Steven Pinker learned the hard way, the Blank Slate is the most sacred piece of dogma for Leftists (and for the liberals who are usually also fundamentalists when it comes to racial issues).
The Blank Slate is the skeleton key for the Left project of "socialist liberation", which is predicated on the idea that we're all interchangeable meat widgets that can be properly programmed with "critical consciousness" as long as a Left commissar can sink their teeth into our brains at as young an age as possible.
They will never relinquish it, no matter what facts intervene, and will viciously attack anyone who threatens it, because the Blank Slate (in their minds) gives them carte blanche to reprogram all of us into members of their cultish political project.
One reason to not talk about something is that it keeps exploitation of the thing from being discussed as well.
There’s a brand of conservative policy that recognizes the significance of luck in social outcomes. It is the basis for conservative subsidy for kids and healthcare. To my mind, high or low IQ is another variety of luck, and could justify conservative subsidies, if a readily available proxy for individual IQ was identified. Earning are probably a rough proxy, but I don’t have any notion of how rough that would be.
"Plenty of things, after all, are true that prudent people may find too offensive or too trivial to write about."
Is there an example of something that is true that you would find too offensive to write about?
You'll have my favorite polemic gentrified by normal-one-havers.