I didn’t say nor mean to imply that anyone who studies group differences must be motivated by animus. I do find that public discussions of such research seems to attract amateurs who ARE motivated that way, and activists who assume that others in the discussion are.
To be clear, I’m deeply in favor of careful world-modeling that understands the distribution of traits, and the level of correlation between visible and invisible traits, especially when it allows better individual decisions based on actual observations and measurements. I, however, don’t believe that most people, even on LessWrong, are capable of that level of rigor, and the discussions seem more painful than helpful in non-heavily-moderated-and-focused forums.
Not “this topic is wrong to research and use in individual treatments”, but “this topic doesn’t go well on LessWrong”. And a little bit of “this topic is wrong to use in general non-individual policy”.
I didn’t say nor mean to imply that anyone who studies group differences must be motivated by animus. I do find that public discussions of such research seems to attract amateurs who ARE motivated that way, and activists who assume that others in the discussion are.
To be clear, I’m deeply in favor of careful world-modeling that understands the distribution of traits, and the level of correlation between visible and invisible traits, especially when it allows better individual decisions based on actual observations and measurements. I, however, don’t believe that most people, even on LessWrong, are capable of that level of rigor, and the discussions seem more painful than helpful in non-heavily-moderated-and-focused forums.
Not “this topic is wrong to research and use in individual treatments”, but “this topic doesn’t go well on LessWrong”. And a little bit of “this topic is wrong to use in general non-individual policy”.