Matthew_Opitz comments on Suppose HBD is True - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Matthew_Opitz 21 April 2016 10:19:55PM 5 points [-]

One argument could be that many social scientists are being led down a blind alley of trying to find environmental causes of all sorts of differences and are being erroneously predisposed to find such causes in their data to a stronger extent than is really the case, which then leads to incorrect conclusions and policy recommendations that will not actually change things for the better because the policy recommendations end up not addressing what is the vast majority of the root of the problem (genetics, in this case).