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Comment author: Emile 01 May 2013 05:01:16PM 9 points [-]

Nice summary; a minor nitpick:

Anti-Naturalists tend to work in philosophy of religion (.3) or Greek philosophy (.11). They avoid philosophy of mind (-.17) and cognitive science (-.18) like the plague. They hate Hume (-.14), Lewis (-.13), Quine (-.12), analytic philosophy (-.14), and being from Australasia (-.11).

"avoid like the plague" and "hate" are pretty strong terms to use for such low correlations...

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Comment author: jkaufman 01 May 2013 06:46:45PM * 5 points [-]

Until I went back and compared the numbers I took your description to mean that their dislikes here were much stronger than the ones for other clusters.

Comment author: atorm 02 May 2013 12:46:14AM 7 points [-]

I'm afraid that during this comment you are being hilarious, but during that part of your post you were being unintentionally misleading.

Comment author: Randy_M 01 May 2013 10:02:46PM 2 points [-]

And here I just thought you had really strong priors for perfectly equal distribution.

Comment author: RobbBB 02 May 2013 02:06:39AM 1 point [-]

I thought the tongue-in-cheekery was obvious given 'and being from Australasia'.

Comment author: Emile 02 May 2013 08:55:27AM * 1 point [-]

It totally flew over my head then (and I'm probably not the only one). I guess I'm too used to popular science journalism that takes a study with a small correlation or a small effect or a small sample size, and rounds it to the nearest cliche to put a triumphant headline like "SMOKING CAUSES HOMOSEXUALITY", whereas the original study was that in a group of 20 rats, filling their cage with smoke made male-female rat interaction frequency decrease by 7%.

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