Yeah, Ege Erdil’s analogy is unlikely to work out, because the innate race/intelligence hypothesis is actually quite complicated. It’s not just asserting that genetic differences between races cause IQ differences between races, but also that these differences are not mediated by stuff like racism.
I think most who promote it would also go further and say that it is not mediated by high-level psychological stuff like interests, which is definitely a stop where I jump off and say that I haven’t seen evidence for.
Yeah, Ege Erdil’s analogy is unlikely to work out, because the innate race/intelligence hypothesis is actually quite complicated. It’s not just asserting that genetic differences between races cause IQ differences between races, but also that these differences are not mediated by stuff like racism.
I think most who promote it would also go further and say that it is not mediated by high-level psychological stuff like interests, which is definitely a stop where I jump off and say that I haven’t seen evidence for.
I don’t think this is the case, because actually the claim “paracetamol helps with fever” is fairly underdetermined.