causal influences

...evidence from multiple samples indicates that, when siblings differ in educational attainment, the sibling with the higher polygenic score is more likely to be the one with more education. These results seem inexplicable except by the polygenic score capturing causal influences of genetic differences on educational attainment. - The Arrival of Social Science Genomics by Jeremy Freese

good summary

casual italicized in the original

Dibble’s First Law of Sociology: "Some do; some don’t." - just-one-liners.com

Ross coined the term ‘race suicide,’ described the Civil War as ‘lining the valleysof the South with the bones of half a million picked whites in order to improve the conditions of four million unpicked blacks’ (Ibid. quoted from Illiberal Reformers)