nazgulnarsil comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: Jack 16 March 2010 07:36:00PM *  3 points [-]

I find Nisbett's reply pretty convincing. How do others feel?

Brazil, would you like to reply to the Nisbett article?

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 19 March 2010 10:02:37AM 3 points [-]

Not to excuse the shoddy scholarship of rushton and jensen, but I'd just like to add that a cursory examination of the nisbett article indeed shows some highly dubious claims. In several places he assumes a hypothesis of the form "If the hereditary model is true, then we should see X". But for many of these it seems that X does not necessarily follow from the hereditary hypothesis. the hereditary hypothesis is not a monolithic structure. it is a spectrum of correlation from 0.0 to 1.0. both ends seem equally implausible to me.

Comment author: gwern 09 December 2012 02:01:57AM 1 point [-]

My own encounter with Nisbett material: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4257220