Jayson_Virissimo comments on Wes Weimer from Udacity presents his list of things you should learn - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 24 June 2012 07:22:03AM *  4 points [-]

...Anthropology and gender studies, to get an idea of what behaviors are socially constructed and which are essential...

It is my understanding that physical anthropologists will give very different answers than other kinds of anthropologists. I would suggest evolutionary psychology and gender studies as a more suitable dichotomy of types of hypothesis.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 24 June 2012 10:08:18PM 2 points [-]

He specifically suggests both Mead and Freeman. I've never heard someone advocate reading one without banning the other.

Comment author: Nornagest 24 June 2012 07:58:56AM 1 point [-]

I suspect that studying those two fields together might lead to more confusion than it clears up, at least lacking any bridging information or empirical data to help you evaluate claims.