Other factors enable many other places in the temperate zones to reach higher temperatures than many places in the tropics.94 None of this contradicts the scientific fact that sunlight is hotter in the tropics. But that unchallenged fact does not mean that this single factor automatically determines all outcomes. Similarly, among human beings, the unchallenged fact of discriminatory bias against various groups in countries around the world does not preclude outcomes from being determined by a wider range of other factors in particular places and times.