ialdabaoth comments on Less Wrong’s political bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 29 November 2013 01:01:46AM *  2 points [-]

the correlation between race and both propensity to violence and intelligence being the most obvious example.

In this particular example, though, I don't think (non-mindkilled) people try to train people not to notice it, and in most rational cases that I've seen, it isn't "rationalized away" so much as people spend a good deal of effort insisting that correlation does not always imply causation, and that social policies which take that correlation into account need to be VERY careful not to repeat tabooed historical solutions. I think if "I agree denotationally but object connotationally" were a more widespread concept, we would see a lot of this tendency disappear.