Douglas_Knight comments on Fight Zero-Sum Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 20 July 2010 09:31:45PM *  1 point [-]

According to Tierney, Baumeister's source is Wilder-Mobasher-Hammer (not gated, but also). An intermediate observation is that local mitochondrial Eves tend to be twice as old as local Y-Adams. The paper goes on to draw the conclusion that the effective sex ratio was 2:1. (which is not quite the same as a male mode of 0.) I would be pretty negative about this deduction, except for the last couple of sentences (the ones citing Shen et al and Hedrick) which claim that this is compatible with autosomal observations.

Still, given the extent and... energy of the backlash underway when it was delivered, I doubt that an uncorrected version would still be available from FSU's official web servers if an easy refutation was available.

I think you have wildly false beliefs about universities. Can you point to documents that were pushed off of university servers or corrected due to political pressure in the context of that backlash?

Comment author: newerspeak 21 July 2010 03:52:59PM 0 points [-]

Can you point to documents that were pushed off of university servers or corrected due to political pressure in the context of that backlash?

Er, shouldn't wrong papers be corrected or withdrawn, even in the absence of political pressure?

Anyway, I'm not insinuating anything here. I'm just pointing out that controversial statements get aggressive fact-checking