gwern comments on Open Thread, August 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 19 August 2012 10:04:06PM *  1 point [-]

No, as I understand it, Lewontin's fallacy is considered to be not the claim that there is no underlying basis, but that this is established by looking at raw percentages of between-group vs within-group variation.