What I found interesting about this post was the increased risk of the mind projection fallacy- because he knows about evo psych, any hypothesis he can construct that conforms to the evo psych narrative gains credibility, even without data to support it. That is, he makes a conclusion about male and female strategies from a sample size of n=2. Is it more likely that a sample size of n=200 will repeat that result than have the opposite result? Yes, but not by all that much- and so I would suggest more reluctance at identifying one of his traits as a male trait.
Today's post, Rational vs. Scientific Ev-Psych was originally published on 04 January 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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