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drethelin comments on Open Thread for February 3 - 10 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: drethelin 08 February 2014 04:53:38AM 5 points [-]

"Beyond mere statistical assertion" So his response to "All the statistics show racial IQ differences" is simply to say "that's irrelevant unless you have a concrete theory to explain why that happened"? A moment's reflection dismissing something as an "unlikely scenario" is exactly the opposite of how science should be done.