Kind of interesting how the housing and student loan bubbles were both caused by initiatives to bring access to minorities. I wonder if that has predictive power.
That's essentially the point; free speech protects the rights of unpopular minorities. Why would a gay Jewish, Muslim, woman want straight white men to enact limitations on their speech?
Maybe he believes that Japanese people are better judges on average. Traits about populations that concern <100% of their members can still hold utility.
>Also, for many human traits (i.e height), the intra-population variation is much greater than the inter-population variance, especially when controlling for the effect of environment.
All this means is that >0 members of population B have more of the trait than >0 members of population A. It doesn't at all discredit the notion that members of population A tend to have more of the trait.
It would, however, mean that the overrepresentation of East Asians among life outcomes that correlate with aptitude in math is not necessarily the result of them oppressing other groups.
>I wonder if conservatives could use their own experiences to develop some much needed empathy for minorities and women in STEM
How so? All the things cited as barriers to minorities/women in tech (underrepresentation, lack of depiction in the media, etc.) are doubly true for conservatives, yet conservatives don't consider them to be barriers.
Not seeing conservative programmers depicted in movies seems like a hilariously trivial non-issue to me, so to hear minorities/women describe the same as "systemic violence" comes across as hysteria at best, and deceptive self-promotion at worst.
Score on IQ tests is a far better predictor of SES than parental SES. Someone in the 95th percentile for IQ will, on average, earn more than someone with parents in the 95th percentile of earnings.
The first diagram shows whites as being overrepresented by 8 points, but the subsequent diagrams show whites as comprising ~50% of the students at the component schools. The U.S. population is 63% white- wouldn't being 50% of the student body make them underrepresented?
>"The first thing to remember is that the differences among individuals are far greater than the differences between groups."
All this means is that there is some degree of overlap between the two curves; that not every member of group A is more intelligent than every member of group B. Which is trivially true; even the most virulent racists would agree without hesitation that Clarence Thomas is more intelligent than a mentally disabled white person.
The height differences among Filipinos is greater than the difference in average height between Filipinos and the Dutch. Yet we can still say that on average Dutch people are taller than Filipinos, and understand that the underrepresentation of Filipinos in fields that select for height is not the result of societal oppression.
The two positions in the debate are that sex differences are 100% environmental and 0% biological vs. <100% environmental and >0% biological. Nobody believes that they are 100% biological.