I would say that the claim "Blacks on average have worse character than whites" is far more dubious on a simple empirical level than "Blacks on average have lower IQ than whites"
Would you now?
Would you also arrange for your daughter to wait for you on Martin Luther King Boulevard?
Assume that Prismatic was making a claim about "worse" being different for each English speaker, and each of our models of others differ, and argue against that point instead.
the precise determination of "character" is doing a lot of work in this formulation
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