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The idea here is interesting, but I wonder if anyone has tried to actually put it to the test. Not out of any personal desire to replace reasoned argument with statistics, mind, but simply because it's pretty clear now that anything short of repeatedly replicated psychometric data will be dismissed without consideration if it disagrees with the doctrine of HNU.
Apparently there are such things as a Guilt Inventory, so assuming it's actually as reliable as it's supposed to be it seems to reason that one could take Guilt Inventories of various populations and see what shakes out.
(In case anyone else reading the parent is scratching the head, that's “human neurological uniformity”. I correctly guessed from the context what concept it referred to, but it took me a few minutes' intensive use of Google's minus operator to find out what word each letter stood for.)
Without saying this is true, I'm not sure how much this would disagree with Human Neurological Uniformity. It seems to me that guilt would be present everywhere but if the culture is one where shaming is used a lot, it wouldn't get as much exercise, which could lead to this.
Not to mention that we don't know for sure that there even is a significant population difference here. It could just as easily be one of the things which humans seem to be generally consistent on as a species.
The point I was making, albeit ineptly, is that good research on the topic would be interesting and any potential ideological fallout shouldn't deter people from it.