Yah , my mom fried them in a light batter with plenty of slivered green onions . Delicious . <| sep |> Ok ok , let ' s see what I got . Educated people , of which academics and sociologists are a subgroup , are disproportionately found to have leftofcenter political leanings . They are strongly attacted to egalitarianism as something that is both practical and desirable . I ' m not entirely sure why this is , exactly . I don ' t think you can learn that a fundamental desire or a fundamental moral commitment , like the desire that all people should be equal or the commitment to treating all people as equally as possible , is true , unless perhaps its justification is couched in the language of selfinterest . Perhaps there is some underlying common cause that causes liberal political views to be correlated with a desire and a capacity for academic work . Whatever the cause , that ' s the situation we have . Sociology is filled with people who are very strongly committed to egalitarian views as part of their basic political identity . I take as evidence for this the number of statements that sociologists have made that cast inequality in negative terms , how they hope that their work can be used to ameliorate inequality , etc . If important traits like intelligence , impulse control , etc are highly heritable , then that ' s going to make highly egalitarian visions of society seem less desirable or practical . Sociologists rightly fear that such work could be used to justify that the rich naturally deserve to be rich and the poor naturally deserve to be poor , or that some races will naturally be more successful than others even under equal conditions , etc . So sociologists don ' t want traits that are important for life success to be based in genetics . Before you even get to any of the evidence , before you ' ve done any of the work at all , if you just asked a sociologist would you rather have intelligence be based more in biology or more in upbringing ? , the vast majority of sociologists would say upbringing . And I think they would hold that desire strongly . Do you honestly deny that ? So , they have this very strong desire for how they want the world to be , and that ' s necessarily going to color their interpretation of the data , or at least it ' ll influence which avenues of research they pursue and what theories they find plausible , at least a little bit . Remember the phrenologists who unconsciously put more straw into European skulls to show that they were bigger ? It would be naive to assume that sociologists aren ' t subject to those same sorts of emotional biases . Who knows how all of this will change with the advent of gene editing . I hope that was crazy enough for you .