I wouldn’t call these taboo topics. These are largely racist tropes. Taboo topics are things like “openly discussing sex with friends”, “who I voted for the last election” and “how much do I get paid”. Not “white Europeans are smarter than black Africans”.
While I understand it looks beautiful, this seems mislabeled as taboo and more “prevalence of misconceptions”. This is kinda scary data IMO made more so by the fact that this isn’t being presented in a way that feels genuine.
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It’s interesting that discussing intelligence differences between sexes is significantly less taboo than between races.
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everything about how the data was gathered and how the visualization was made can be found [here](https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/the-taboo-hierarchy)
I wouldn’t call these taboo topics. These are largely racist tropes. Taboo topics are things like “openly discussing sex with friends”, “who I voted for the last election” and “how much do I get paid”. Not “white Europeans are smarter than black Africans”.
While I understand it looks beautiful, this seems mislabeled as taboo and more “prevalence of misconceptions”. This is kinda scary data IMO made more so by the fact that this isn’t being presented in a way that feels genuine.
It’s interesting that discussing intelligence differences between sexes is significantly less taboo than between races.