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*Sports with no clear racial skew despite participation* – Basketball (NBA), American football skill positions, and men’s 100 m sprinting are the mirror image: blacks dominate when both groups compete. These counter-examples are useful in showing that participation alone does not explain every gap; physiology interacts with culture and opportunity [4][5]. | *Sports with no clear racial skew despite participation* – Basketball (NBA), American football skill positions, and men’s 100 m sprinting are the mirror image: blacks dominate when both groups compete. These counter-examples are useful in showing that participation alone does not explain every gap; physiology interacts with culture and opportunity [4][5]. | ||
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Matthew Yglesias argues that statistical differences by ancestry can be discussed without lapsing into deterministic or ideological conclusions; he criticises Sailer for pushing the conversation in a way he considers “unseemly” and too eager to reduce complex outcomes to race [2][3]. Epstein, by contrast, stresses the interplay of gene pools, selection and culture rather than any immutable hierarchy [5][6]. | Matthew Yglesias argues that statistical differences by ancestry can be discussed without lapsing into deterministic or ideological conclusions; he criticises Sailer for pushing the conversation in a way he considers “unseemly” and too eager to reduce complex outcomes to race [2][3]. Epstein, by contrast, stresses the interplay of gene pools, selection and culture rather than any immutable hierarchy [5][6]. | ||