Spurlock comments on Request: Interesting Invertible Facts - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2010 08:02PM

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Comment author: Spurlock 14 October 2010 12:46:20PM 3 points [-]

How about just about any evolutionary claim? While evolution itself is as real a phenomenon as anyone has ever discovered, there seems to be a lot of dubious rationality, especially hindsight bias, about applying evolutionary arguments, especially in evolutionary psychology.

For example, this article about wasps is begging to be fact-inverted.