tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post4583963755173264094..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Data: Do Americans think genes or environment are more important? Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-36789653850788040762019-03-28T13:11:41.052-07:002019-03-28T13:11:41.052-07:00To most liberal whites, there would appear to be a...To most liberal whites, there would appear to be a disconnect between what Blacks and Hispanics say, and the "white privilege" explanation of differences in group outcome. However, they do have a cope: Lewontin's Fallacy permits them to believe in "genetic influence" so long as diversity is all "within" rather than "between" racial groups. What is more, this cope can, if push comes to shove, be extended all the way to "genetic determinism" even though Lewontin railed against that strawman, along with his partner in crime, Gould. I mean, you can't expect a Harvard coed to put _all_ that together at once in her pretty little head can you?<br /><br />So, safe from her cognitive dissonance, any group differences in outcome _must_ be due to white privilege and Blacks and Hispanics simply must have read Lewontin, like her!Jim Boweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686155123469135528noreply@blogger.com