I know Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., and he has been a participant in the journal club I mentioned in my top-level comment in this thread. He is a serious researcher on human behavior genetics and he has had publications in Science and other leading journals of peer-reviewed scientific research. I by no means claim that he would endorse all of my opinions about human behavior genetics, nor would I endorse all of his, but I will endorse him as a truth-seeker and straight shooter who attempts to take his opinions where the facts lead him, as he best understands the facts.
A lot of the rest of the tone of your reply is just setting up tribal affiliations and name-calling. But on the substance of what you wrote, perhaps you and I could agree in endorsing a review article by Eric Turkheimer (a colleague and occasional co-author of Bouchard's, and current president of the Behavior Genetics Association):
Turkheimer, E. (2012). Genome wide association studies of behavior are social science. In K. S. Plaisance & T.A.C. Reydon (Eds.) Philosophy of Behavioral Biology (pp. 43-64). New York, NY: Springer.
"If the history of empirical psychology has taught researchers anything, it is that correlations between causally distant variables cannot be counted on to lead to coherent etiological models."
I know Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., and he has been a participant in the journal club I mentioned in my top-level comment in this thread. He is a serious researcher on human behavior genetics and he has had publications in Science and other leading journals of peer-reviewed scientific research. I by no means claim that he would endorse all of my opinions about human behavior genetics, nor would I endorse all of his, but I will endorse him as a truth-seeker and straight shooter who attempts to take his opinions where the facts lead him, as he best understands the facts.
A lot of the rest of the tone of your reply is just setting up tribal affiliations and name-calling. But on the substance of what you wrote, perhaps you and I could agree in endorsing a review article by Eric Turkheimer (a colleague and occasional co-author of Bouchard's, and current president of the Behavior Genetics Association):
Turkheimer, E. (2012). Genome wide association studies of behavior are social science. In K. S. Plaisance & T.A.C. Reydon (Eds.) Philosophy of Behavioral Biology (pp. 43-64). New York, NY: Springer.
http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Turkheimer%20GWAS%...
"If the history of empirical psychology has taught researchers anything, it is that correlations between causally distant variables cannot be counted on to lead to coherent etiological models."