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I think it's one of the better explanations for the fact that tall people become presidents and get payed more in business.
It's like saying that you can make everyone on earth black within one generation. You just kill every nonblack person.
Given that you claim to have nice guy privilege I would assume that's because you don't make strong demands of other people.
Of course you might feel no anxiety when trying to negotiate a price for a new car. You don't lose anything when you just walk out of the dealership.
I would predict with high confidence that you would feel anxiety if you would go to your boss and ask for a 20% raise or you quit.
(Indeed, many of the attempts to use evolutionary psychology as prescriptive rather than descriptive come across to me like ‘people have dark skin, because they evolved in Africa where there was lots of sunshine, so you should spend plenty of time in the sunshine or you will get vitamin D deficiency’ when nowadays there are plenty of people who have pale skin and would get sunburns as a result of following that advice -- and can digest lactose so they can get the vitamin D they need from dairy products. And then when a fair-skinned person would point out that they've never got vitamin D deficiency and they've got quite a few sunburns, they are accused of lying, or of being inferior mutants rather than Real People. See e.g. some of the comments on Yvain's blog post about polyamory.)
Are you claiming vitamin D deficiency is not common?
No.
EDIT: Do you mean literal vitamin D deficiency, or what vitamin D deficiency is a metaphor for in my comment?
I mean literal vitamin D deficiency, because I had thought vitamin D deficiency was one of the best examples of the evolutionary heuristic.