Ron_Hardin comments on Rationality Quotes 11 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ron_Hardin 04 March 2008 01:04:03PM 2 points [-]

"If we let ethical considerations get in the way of scientific hubris, then the feminists have won!"

Back when science was fun :

`` Watson, repeating similar experiments [to Pavlov], noted the ``transference'' aspect of such conditioning. Having found that the violent striking of an iron bar produced fear in an infant, he noted that he could give a ``fear'' character to some hitherto neutral object, such as a rabbit, by placing it before the child each time the iron bar was struck; he next demonstrated that this conditioned fear of the rabbit was transferred with varying degrees of intensity to other things having similar properties(such as fur coats or cotton blankets).''

- Kenneth Burke, _Permanence and Change_ p.11