Eugine_Nier comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 November 2012 03:58:11AM 0 points [-]

4) Prior changes to gender and other social norms have occurred without society falling apart

This could be anthropic fallacy.

Comment author: Nornagest 28 November 2012 04:09:05AM 4 points [-]

We could control for that by looking through the records of past civilizations and trying to get an idea of whether changes to gender or social norms were reliably associated with collapse.