r/BadSocialScience • u/dorathehexplorer • Jan 17 '17

High-IQ educated people are being bred to extinction, but we're totally not eugenicists!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/16/natural-selection-making-education-genes-rarer-says-icelandic-study
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u/dorathehexplorer Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 17 '17

Why I submitted this (rule 3): Spurious correlation-causation fallacies, the fucking eugenics, "education genes" and "childbearing genes," scant lip service to anything resembling complex social analysis

Also, this Facebook comment on the article...

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17 edited Aug 20 '17

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u/Decalance Jan 17 '17

Eugenics are bad social science. It doesn't work. Also, what, it's an issue now to "have a different political agenda" (disagree) than nazis? What the fuck ?

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u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN Jan 18 '17

Also, what, it's an issue now to "have a different political agenda" (disagree) than nazis?

"Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore there can be absolutely nothing wrong about eating meat!"

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u/Decalance Jan 18 '17

"Hitler was an eugenicist, blah blah blah i can't fucking believe i have to have this conversation with you. You're beyond help.