army1987 comments on "NRx" vs. "Prog" Assumptions: Locating the Sources of Disagreement Between Neoreactionaries and Progressives (Part 1) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 September 2014 08:45:38AM *  -1 points [-]

It's not obvious that revealed preferences are necessarily more “actual” than stated preferences [1, 2]. In any event it takes both a man and a woman to conceive a child; how do we disentangle their revealed preferences from each other?

Comment author: Azathoth123 11 September 2014 02:47:15AM 5 points [-]

The question is what causes more or fewer children to be conceived. Jim argues with some evidence that a major factor is relative status of men and women.