Brian_Jaress2 comments on Rational vs. Scientific Ev-Psych - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Brian_Jaress2 05 January 2008 07:48:47AM 1 point [-]

"There are some people who will, if you just tell them the Refrigerator Hypothesis, snort and say 'That's an untestable just-so story' and dismiss it out of hand; but if you start by telling them about the gaze-tracking experiment and then explain the evolutionary motivation, they will say, 'Huh, that might be right.'"

But do they actually think it's more likely to be true?

They didn't say it was impossible, they said it wasn't testable. Explain how to test it, and they don't say that. What's the problem?