Comment on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:00:50 GMT

Is this not acknowledged? Nay, is this not common knowledge?

I think you overestimate people: read the comments here. This is a libertarian channel - even among the right there are those who think it is heresy to suggest that inequality is the result of anything other than discrimination. Also read this. Yep, its all the school's fault.

Assuming this particular piece of knowledge matters, what are we supposed to do about it

Stop doing stupid things mostly. Policy usually works better when it is based on the way the world actually works. There are many policies that are compatible with acknowledging biological differences - and I would guess that most of them are better than what we have now. Stupid things include having race quotas in professional schools and AP classes, firing innocent teachers, the list goes on and on.

Frankly the question gets asked a lot, but I don't know why. Its a lot like the Christian argument "Well if you don't believe in God then what? Are you going to murder people and start raping bunnies?". Its sort of a ridiculous question - there is an enormous diversity in ~Christianity*. ~Christianity is not a worldview. And ~egalitarianism is not a worldview either.

*"~" means "not"

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