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#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Why Do You Continue to Study Average Differences Between Groups?

"There's lots of important things to study. Why are some people skitsophranic and others not? And most of the variants that we're trying to explain with genetics is within groups," he says. "So why focus on politically explosive issue of average differences between groups when we don't have powerful techniques to definitively answer it?" O'Mays: I'm reconciled to never coming out from under the shadow of having touched that topic....

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