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49 Post author: Yvain 06 July 2012 08:12PM

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Comment author: ScottMessick 06 July 2012 08:34:16PM 6 points [-]

But this elegant simplicity was, like so many other things, ruined by the Machiguenga Indians of eastern Peru.

Wait, is this a joke, or have the Machiguenga really provided counterexamples to lots of social science hypotheses?

Comment author: [deleted] 07 July 2012 07:32:34AM 2 points [-]

I took the “like so many other things” to only apply to “was ruined”, not to “was ruined by the Machiguenga”...