A Million Little Gods
by Aaron Gowen
December 11, 2020 11:41 pm
A Million Little Gods, hosted by Aaron Gowen and Ben Feddersen at the University of Hamburg, is podcast about being of two—or more—minds about things and being okay with that.
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We’ve reached the heart of the part of our series “Race: Is That a Thing?” devoted to statistics and data. Having laid the groundwork for understanding Bayesian techniques and machine learning—as well as the limits and discontents of those tools—in episodes nine and ten, we turn to how they’ve been used to understand the history and diversity of the human population.
Carl Zimmer, New York Times science journalist and author, and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Professor of the Philosophy of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, help us unpack just how difficult it is to justify using our cultural inheritance of “race” to talk about our genetic inheritance.
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