Vernaculis on Race and Political Views

   

The Alternative Hypothesis

 

Published on May 24, 2016

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Response to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syyH6vY7mNI

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:50 - Sources

2:00 - Heritability of Political Views

3:24 - "Race Genes"

5:37 - Individualism Genes

7:26 - A stilted conception of genetic groups and primitive non-understanding of heritability

10:29 - Bizarre demand for specificity (what's the heritability that your favorite TV show is Spongebob?)

13:04 - Heritability and age

16:01 - The Heritability of Mental Traits (Put down Aristotle and the old environmental mysticism and step into the light of data!)

Sources:

Existence of Race:
http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/329/

Heritability of Political Views:
http://www.luisarroyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Gen%C3%A9tica-y-pol%C3%ADtica-Hatemi1.pdf

https://sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.018

https://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00915.x

http://www.procon.org/sourcefiles/genetic-and-environmental-transmission-of-political-attitudes-over-a-life-time.pdf

GWAS on Political Views:
https://sci-hub.cc/10.1017/S0022381610001015

Population Differences in Individualism:

http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/05/01/population-differences-in-individualism/

Heritability with age:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23919982

http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Age-Related-Changes-in-Heritability-of-Behavioral-Phenotypes-Over-Adolescence-and-Young-Adulthood-A-Meta-Analysis.pdf

Heritability of Psychological Traits:
http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/dmessinger/c_c/rsrcs/rdgs/temperament/bouchard.04.curdir.pdf

Race and IQ Series:
http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/site-map/

Race and Political Views:
http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/28/political-ideology-in-america-by-race/

Race and Voting:
http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/253/

3 Laws of Behavioral Genetics:
http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/three_laws.pdf

General Heritability of IQ:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Estimates_of_the_heritability_of_IQ

(Yes, IMO wikipedia did a good job on that specific thing because I think "the left" has come to terms with the high heritability of intelligence within populations.)

Surveys on Intelligence Researchers on Intelligence:

2013 Survey that asked about the black-white IQ gap:
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/2013-survey-of-expert-opinion-on-intelligence.pdf

(On page 16. The pie chart is of the 1984 survey, the table is of the 2013 survey.)

2016 Paper on more PC Surveys:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00399/full


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