Message from @vaultright

2017-07-11 17:01:28 UTC

I've gotten to a point where debating people on this has become tiresome. I've just become smug and sarcastic. If you're debating someone about race realism ask them to describe the process of Evolution to you. Ask them to describe the specific selection pressures that confer adaptations to mammals and how they work. If a person doesn't understand the biological principle of Adaptive Radiation then debating them will literally go nowhere.

ouroboros

2017-07-11 17:03:44 UTC

I've realized the most vocal people discussing and pushing the (((Narrative))) that we are all the same have no idea what they are talking about.

ouroboros

2017-07-11 17:05:12 UTC

In spite of all that

ouroboros

2017-07-11 17:05:17 UTC

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed speaking with you. I will be out-of-town for the next month, but I definitely want to get together with your group later in the Fall.

Thanks for sending the article. I know Pigliucci through science, and in fact, he reviewed parts of one of my books.

Doug Whitman

ouroboros

2017-07-11 17:05:37 UTC

that's the e-mail i recieved from Whitman

vaultright

2017-07-11 22:34:03 UTC

@ouroboros LIT

vaultright

2017-07-12 01:57:18 UTC

Regression Happens Once

For whatever reason, a lot of people think that regression to the mean will keep happening to someone’s descendants until they research original population’s mean. This is not true. Once the next generation inherits an additive genetic advantage in some trait it keeps it. Their kids and their grand kids will continue to have it.

Were this not true, evolution would be impossible. Every time a mutation resulted in a genetic change in a trait the next few generations would simply regress back to where the trait was before. Evolution happens, and so regression to the mean clearly does not work this way.

Let’s imagine that my height is 100% the result of a new additive mutation that makes people 50% further, in a positive direction, from their sexes mean height than average. Let’s also assume that my mate has the same new mutation. We are the only two people who have it. We will both give that mutation our kids. They will be just as tall as us. After all, they have the same genes that made us tall. There is nowhere else for the genes to go. Thus, no regression to the mean happens, right?

Well, yes and no. Yes, my kids are just as far from the original population’s height mean as I am. However, the population’s mean height has changed. Thanks to the new mutation being given to my kids, the population’s mean height has risen. Thus, the distance between my kids height and the population mean is less than the initial distance between my height and the population mean was. So, there is a sense in which, as the mutation continues to be spread across the population, everyone will return to “the mean”. But it will be a new mean, and that is not regression to the mean.