Deskchair comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong
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My impression is that we aren't terribly good yet at understanding how traits which involve many genes play out, whether political correctness is involved or not.
That hasn't stopped us from doing incredible feats of artificial selection using phenotype alone. You can work faster and better the more you understand a system on the genetic level, but it's hardly necessary.