notes/human-diversity-notes.md

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   4 (Although in some critical social-media commentary, William Buckner notes that
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   6 ["Being Steven Pinker is a lot more fun than being Charles Murray"](https://archive.is/bNo2q)—and Pinker knows it. Similarly, being Charles Murray is a lot more fun than being J. Philippe Rushton—and Murray knows it.
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   8 Hyde/Fine binary notes: p. 388
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  10 http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/the-typical-set/
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  12 TODO: replace Serano/Veale personal links with paper links "Identity-Defense model"
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  14 [TODO: farmer/forager?? increased sexual dimorphism]
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  16 (Although as evolutionary anthropologist [William Buckner](https://traditionsofconflict.com/) points out in [his](https://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/1228124441944584192) [social-media](https://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/1228860328483491840) [criticism](https://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/1228947493309698050) of _Human Diversity_, [W.E.I.R.D.](https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/05/weird) samples from different countries aren't capturing the full range of human cultures.)
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  19 New Republic review: https://newrepublic.com/article/156330/charles-murray-never-going-away
  20 NYT review: https://archive.is/b4xKB
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  22 Cowen: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/charles-murrays-human-diversity.html
  23 > The real lesson of “twins studies plus anthropology” is that you have to control almost all of a person’s environment to have a major impact, but a major impact indeed can be had.  I behave very differently than my Irish potato famine ancestors, and not because I am genetically 1/8 from the Madeira Islands.  That said, within the narrower range of environmental variation measured in twins studies…well those studies seem to be fairly accurate.
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  25 UK/US rank order
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  27 > But you can't use the same techniques to study racial differences, because all these techniques are based on a comparison of relatives — twins, identical twins, fraternal twins, siblings, parents and children.
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  29 https://www.amren.com/news/2012/10/arthur-jensen-has-died/
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  31 https://nationalpolicy.institute/2020/02/14/bravery-signaling/
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  33 Eugenics
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  35 https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/discovery-institute-makes-hay-of-dawkins-tweet-and-a-geneticist-mistakenly-says-that-artificial-selection-wont-work-in-humans/