check in

diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
index 5347820..37b4503 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
+++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@ Well, this is awkward.
 
 I _liked_ [reviewing the _last_ Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/). That book did a _little_ bit of political positioning in opposition to the blank slate orthodoxy, but for the _most_ part, it was just a fun, clean Science book for Science nerds. Effect sizes! GWAS! Selection on standing variation! Additive genetic variance! No one can get (or stay) angry about these technical minutiæ. "[E]veryone should calm down," Murray wrote, and as your eyes glaze over the two-page table of "Differences in Target Allele Frequencies for Traits Related to Cognitive Repertoires", you can almost start to believe that they should.
 
-This book ... well. This is the Charles Murray book that's _actually_ about the thing that everyone assumes all of his previous books were about. You really have to feel sorry for the man. In previous works such as 1994's _The Bell Curve_ (with Richard J. Hernstein) and 2012's _Coming Apart_, Murray argues that American Society has developed an increasingly stratified class structure based on cognitive ability. All else being equal, smarter individuals attain higher-paying professions, perform better within a given profession, form stabler families, and commit fewer crimes. But sorting by cognitive ability has a dark side in the dissolution of community and undermining of the American way of life, as the richest and most educated increasingly live in their own bubbles and [...]
+This book ... well. This is the Charles Murray book that's _actually_ about the thing that everyone assumes all of his previous books were about.
+
+You really have to feel sorry for the man. In previous works such as 1994's _The Bell Curve_ (with Richard J. Hernstein) and 2012's _Coming Apart_, Murray argues that American Society has developed an increasingly stratified class structure based on cognitive ability. All else being equal, smarter individuals attain higher-paying professions, perform better within a given profession, form stabler families, and commit fewer crimes. But sorting by cognitive ability has a dark side in the dissolution of community and undermining of the American way of life, as the richest and most educated increasingly live in their own bubbles and [...]
 
 None of that has _anything to do with race_. 
 
+[alternate universe no natives no slaves, you could write the same book]
 [Bell Curve had two chapters about race (oh, and a couple more about affirmative action), Coming Apart is specifically about White America, human diversity slow-played the race section]
 [push bad memes onto their lessers]
 

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md
index 699096e..3478963 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md
@@ -363,3 +363,15 @@ Taking it as a given that English speakers are stuck with gendered third-person
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters
 > anything that people are motivated to argue about is not arbitrary.  It is being controlled by invisible criteria of evaluation, it has connotations with consequences
+
+If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way?
+
+Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle??
+https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273
+Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins—
+https://archive.is/Ecsca
+
+my rationalist community has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my community's name
+
+cite to "Not Especially Related to Transgender"
+https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721
\ No newline at end of file

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index bb6e2ec..7590ce4 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -2682,3 +2682,6 @@ http://www.cifncs.org/sports/cross_country/History/2005/DivIIGirls2005.html
 
 "Ethical-Advice Taker: Do Language Models Understand Natural Language Interventions?"
 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01465
+
+"Sex Differences in General Knowledge: Meta-Analysis and New Data on the Contribution of School-Related Moderators among High-School Students"
+https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210204/

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index cdc0c9f..4aaab4c 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2021 significant posts—
 
+_ Reply to Nate Soares on the Classification of Dolphins; Also, Speculation on Psychological Motivations for Tweeting About the Classification of Dolphins
+
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer

diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
index 68f5fa5..cfa563a 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
+++ b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
@@ -419,6 +419,20 @@ and it's linear!!
 A section on gender ID, oh boy :/
 > androgen does not appear to have a large effect on gender identity,
 
+Important!!
+> if anything, gender identity is more predictable from rearing than from prenatal androgen exposure (Mazur, 2005; Zucker, 1999).
+those cites are—
+Mazur, T. (2005). Gender dysphoria and gender change in androgen insensitivity or micropenis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 411–421.
+Zucker, K. J. (1999). Intersexuality and gender identity differentiation. Annual Review of Sex Research, 10, 1–69
+
+> data from typical children show the independence of gender identity and gender-typed interests (Ruble, Martin, & Berenbaum, 2006).
+Ruble, D. N., Martin, C. L., & Berenbaum, S. A. (2006). Gender development. In N. Eisenberg (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 3. Social, emotional, and personality development. (6th ed., pp. 858–932). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
+
+> The social environment of these children is probably complicated. It is conceivable that the girls' boy-typical play made parents question the initial decision about female rearing, and this questioning was conveyed to the children.
+Well, yes
+
+> most XY individuals with abnormal or absent penis (including, but not limited to ablatio penis and cloacal exstrophy) who are reared as girls grow up to identify as girls and women and to be happy with their assigned sex (Meyer-Bahlburg, 2005a)
+
 
 -----
 

diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-sections.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-sections.md
index 80d5276..e8ccdb5 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-sections.md
+++ b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-sections.md
@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ _(Epistemic status: lit review)_
 
 Bradley, S. J., Oliver, G. D., Chernick, A. B., & Zucker, K. J. (1998). Experiment of nurture: ablatio penis at 2 months, sex reassignment at 7 months, and a psychosexual follow-up in young adulthood. Pediatrics, 102, e9.
 
+Reiner, W. G. & Gearhart, J. P. (2004). Discordant sexual identity in some genetic males with cloacal exstrophy assigned to female sex at birth. New England Journal of Medicine, 350, 333–341
+
+Meyer-Bahlburg, H. F. L. (2005a). Gender identity outcome in female-raised 46,XY persons with penile agenesis, cloacal exstrophy of the bladder, or penile ablation. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 423–438.
+
 ]
 
 ### 3.4 Switching Costs Are Not Obviously Trivial