Death by affirmative action: race quotas in medicine
See also previous 2017 post. I have been repeatedly asked about this topic, so here is a post that covers the basics. The argument goes like this: Affirmation action is…
Race and exam pass rates (data dump)
In the SSC subreddit, someone reposted that data showing the strong race bias in the admission process for medicine. I reposted it on Twitter with some snark, to the usual…
Animal breeding, human breeding
Reading up on the huge animal breeding literature gives a useful background to one's thinking about what selection on humans will do in the future (embryo selection and direct editing…
Comment to: Lynn B Jorde & Stephen P Wooding – Genetic variation, classification and ‘race’
First reed the original article in Nature. (Alternativ download) It is a sensible article but consider: “In the meantime, ethnicity or race may in some cases provide useful information in…