Despite strong genetic influences on IQ (and there are strong genetic influences on IQ), we can’t calculate the proportion of credit for Einstein’s intellect that is owed solely to his genes.
What happens in a culture where equality rules?
If we teach men and boys that simple chivalry is a form of sexism that must be opposed, how do we convince them to commit to the braver, more difficult chivalrous demands?
The truth, surprising as it may seem today, is this: The Bell Curve is not pseudoscience.
Issues such as unfair tax structures, government welfare towards banks and corporations, a lack of protection for the common citizen, and gaps in the social safety net are all social justice issues.
The point is rather that, potentially, even quite marked sex differences in the brain may have little consequence for behaviour.
Seeking viewpoint diversity brings us to the final way to use social media scientifically: keeping our information channels open as best we can.
Their accomplishment was huge; not because they moulded me into the man that I am today. No, their accomplishment was even greater.
Although the failure to stop an unethical practice is often attributed to character problems such as greed, sexism or the relentless pursuit of self-interest, our explanation is subtler.
There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change.
One of the forefathers of the modern internet, John Gilmore, famously remarked that the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
As a young man the great economist was influenced by positivist circles in his native Austria. He expressed no faith or belief in God, and adopted a scientific materialism.
We do this with surprising ease, often basing sustained bouts of deliberate nastiness on nebulous reasoning.
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.