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wedrifid comments on Open thread, January 25- February 1 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 01 February 2014 01:48:35AM 2 points [-]

"Dont". Intro over. Evo-Psyc is .. profoundly useless unless you want to use it as a case study of how pre-existing biases and social norms can utterly take over a field operating in a nigh-total vaccum of actual data. Now, I cant guarantee that the entire field is noise and fury signifying nothing, but every sample of it that I have encountered has been.

Pre-existing biases and social norms have utterly taken over something here, in a vacuum of actual data. They may also have applied to some degree to Evo-psych works.