Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 29 11:16:48 PDT 1998


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>R-squared per se may or may not be indicative of the 'scientific value' of
>the finding.

I agree with all you said. My only point, lifted from Gould, was that their strongest case was able to explain 5% of social outcomes, which is pretty useless. On their own terms it's bullshit. Their own terms are even more bullshit than their stats, but I don't think anyone here would disagree.

Doug



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