Jonathan Kaplan

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@NaanPartisan @Censored4sure @leylasheehang Because, as the article makes clear, CA law mandates that private insurance pay for such services (but excludes Medicaid), so people w/o private insurance or w/ lower quality plans rely on DDS, unlike the well off.

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@Censored4sure That is not what the linked study shows, & the link to vaccination schedules is just completely made up. This is more wildly irresponsible anti-vax nonsense, and you are either delusional or dishonest (or possibly both) to be spreading such misinformation.

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@Festivus96 @BreannaMorello Yeah, you don’t know what communism is, and anyone who thinks Harris is a communist is an idiot. She is, if anything, a run of the mill believer in capitalism w a few minor restraints on the worst failures of markets. Sigh.

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@sovereignbrah Wow! Look at all the stars where there isn’t sales tax, SS tax, Medicare tax, etc etc. Really makes you think (that this is a stupid lie by terrible people 🤣).

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@rightresponsem Wow! I had no idea that so many states lacked: SS tax, Medicare tax, sales tax, etc. Really makes you think (that you are just a lying deluded pos 🤣).

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@tap_gary @marcthiessen @Heminator If you really believe *any* of that, you are thoroughly delusional; how anyone even remotely sane can pretend to think that a Harris administration would - or even could! - do any of that, is entirely beyond me. Sigh.

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@Chimpin188398 @SalterianYckyt @Paleoguy073 @DialecticBio There really isn’t much variability there either - it is just that what there is is very salient to us! 3/3

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@Chimpin188398 @SalterianYckyt @Paleoguy073 @DialecticBio … so 3) we have no idea how the development of “intelligence” actually works, so no good sense of the factors that influence it, 4) the dif between a “dull” person & a “genius” is far far smaller than between the average human & the next smartest animal so… 2/

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@DialecticBio @Race__Realist More to the point, Fst is a relative measure, designed for working w shifting balance theories & not absolute differentiation! It’s being misused here…

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@BenjaminDEKR @Seeker107256 Universal, but on one scheme, changes in progressive taxation would zero it at some point, and slightly negatively inflect after that, to pay for it.

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@Doomlaser @WiringTheBrain There is some correlational evidence, yes (how much of it these companies actually use is another matter, but yes, it exists). It isn’t much use for *individual* predictions, though (PGS’s that capture 5% of the variance aren’t going to get you far!). 🤷‍♂️

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@SashaGusevPosts Really nice post! Very clear & thorough.

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@solkonig @DialecticBio @Ugnies12 Fixation indexes are *relative* measures; humans have almost no genetic diversity to start with, and what little we have is mostly not associated with to what population we belong. Population structure is identifiable at many levels, but is fairly trivial.

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@blue_ballooon @FunkyTK1 @VaporSnake1 @JBisbored @The_C_J_Sailor @DialecticBio We don’t. Compared to dogs, humans have very little genetic diversity, & what little we have is not found primarily between populations. Furthermore, human genetic variation is structured in very complex ways & doesn’t lend itself to uniquely identifying populations. 🤷‍♂️

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@GuudGuyGreg @DialecticBio @cceichhorn1 Humans are all much more similar to each other, genetically, than are dogs. And, for the diversity that does exist, dog breeds are more genetically distinct from each other than are human populations (very little of the little variation we have is found between pops).

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@SpeciesTypical I keep looking, but the stereotype threat doesn’t replicate crowd keeps pointing to the same review articles, which are inevitably about gender & math & not about race. Happy to be proven wrong here, but this seems like a case where critics have over generalized. 2/2

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@SpeciesTypical I’ve seen compelling failed replications of stereotype threat re gender & math, but I’ve not seen anything but successful replications of the original b/w one, albeit w/ smaller effect sizes. These include studies on what interventions lessen the effect. 1/

[Jonathan Kaplan @JonathanKaplan]

@SteveScottCntry @ajamubaraka It was. And is. Not perfect (though it would have been better had the Medicaid expansion not been gutted by SCOTUS), but a lot better than what we had before or anything that’s gotten any serious traction since.