gwern comments on Poly marriage? - Less Wrong

-9 Post author: h-H 06 June 2012 07:57PM

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Comment author: gwern 07 June 2012 06:55:19PM 2 points [-]

Are you arguing for the sake of arguing a methodological point, or do you seriously think that this point has a >50% chance of making the theoretically predicted and empirically confirmed phenomenon of inbreeding depression just go away?

Comment author: JGWeissman 07 June 2012 07:11:24PM 2 points [-]

I don't think it makes the inbreeding effect go away completely, but it seems worth considering if there are other contributing factors to the observed effect. (Probability less than 50%, but I think worth tracking.)

I would be careful about dismissing "methodological points". The methodological standards are there for a reason.