From a183a852ce95f331281a08f27d852c276afadfec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:28:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Human Diversity review Presidential sprint session 1: appendices --- content/drafts/book-review-human-diversity.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-human-diversity.md b/content/drafts/book-review-human-diversity.md index c47b883..28ada6e 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-human-diversity.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-human-diversity.md @@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ The third part of the book is about genetic influences on class structure! [Murray says social science is about explaining variance, not causality] -There are also some appendicies at the back of the book! Appendix 1 (reproduced from one of Murray's earlier books) explains some basic statistic concepts. I'm _really excited_ about Appendix 2 ("Sexual Dimorphism in Humans") and Appendix 3 ("Sex Differences in Brain Volumes and Variance")! +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—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? Veale?), 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.) Then Appendix 3 ("Sex Differences in Brain Volumes and Variance") has tables of brain-size data! Cool! ----- -... and that's the review that I +... and that's the review that > Above all, nothing we learn will threaten human equality properly understood. -- 2.17.1