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dd's avatar

On a different note, I just read the New Yorker article on Kahtryn Paige Harden. I was actually surprised to see you pegged as a "conservative" since I had actually not thought of you in strictly political terms until then.

But this anecdote in the article about Harden really struck me:

"When their cohort [from Russell Sage Foundation, I believe] went to see “Hamilton,” the others professed surprise that Harden and Tucker-Drob had enjoyed it, as if their work could be done only by people uncomfortable with an inclusive vision of American history."

If that cohort included researches from the foundation, Is it fair to think that the same kind of narrowness and stereotyping affects their research? It's really bothered to read that.

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Karl Zimmerman's avatar

I take it from their absence in the PCA that no one has looked at Nuristani DNA yet? I'm guessing it's not too different from the nearby Kalasha, despite speaking different Indo-Aryan languages, but we may be surprised.

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