Eugine_Nier comments on Your Evolved Intuitions - Less Wrong

15 Post author: lukeprog 05 May 2011 04:21PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 05 May 2011 09:42:51PM 3 points [-]

I suspect this may be a case of the professionals not wanting to notice because they didn't want to seem politically incorrect.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 05 May 2011 10:17:06PM *  5 points [-]

I suspect this may be a case of the professionals not wanting to notice because they didn't want to seem politically incorrect.

The time prior to the Daly and Wilson paper (1980) included a lot of time when modern notions of political correctness were not operative.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 May 2011 10:24:03PM 0 points [-]

I suspect this may be a case of the professionals not wanting to notice because they didn't want to seem politically incorrect.

I think you're right. It is usually best to conform and be politically correct in most cases, biding time until there is a specific issue on which you can make a stand with an expectation of significant benefit to yourself or your objectives. Choosing a battle.