-[Eric Turkheimer: polygenic scores don't tell you anything about causality, and science is about causes: heritability without mechanism. Divorce is heritable _in the same way_ that IQ is. http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/the-ubiquity-problem-for-group-differences-in-behavior/ a "universal, nonspecific genetic pull on everything"]
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-[Murray says social science is about explaining variance, not causality]
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-There are also some appendicies at the back of the book! Appendix 1 (reproduced from one of Murray's earlier books) explains some basic statistics concepts. Appendix 2 ("Sexual Dimorphism in Humans") goes over the prevalence of intersex conditions and gays, and then—so much for this post broadening the [topic scope of this blog](/tag/two-type-taxonomy/)—transgender typology! Murray presents the Blanchard–Bailey–Lawrence–Littman view as fact, which I think is basically _correct_, but a more comprehensive treatment (which I concede may be too much too hope for from a mere Appendix) would have at least _mentioned_ alternative views ([Serano](http://www.juliaserano.com/)? [Veale](https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/staff/jveale)?), if only to explain _why_ they're worth dismissing. (Contrast to the eight pages in the main text explaining why "But, but, epigenetics!" is worth dismissing.)