The fact that more women than men believe in things I consider 'bottom tier' beliefs - like astrology, crystals, etc. - are confusing, because women have basically the same average scores on IQ tests, right?
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IQ is not the only filter on beliefs, there's also skin-in-the-game, ambition, intellectual curiosity, and harshness of environment.
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So there's something going on with women that doesn't impact their ability to do pattern recognition, but is impacting their ability to hold good beliefs
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Do you have examples? I wondered the same thing but I couldn't think of any examples off the top of my head
I hadn't directly connected those two things, but it makes a lot of sense
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There’s a huge difference between men and women d>2 on “sensitivity” “Sensitivity differentiates people who are sensitive, aesthetic, sentimental, intuitive, and tender-minded from those who are utilitarian, objective, unsentimental, and tough-minded”
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This makes sense - but does this imply sensitive people are more likely to hold inaccurate beliefs? Or do insensitive people also hold inaccurate beliefs, they just are beliefs I haven't thought to ask about?
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but it is relevant - correlated, at least: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosi
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I understand marketing has strong effects, but I'm also skeptical of explanations that blame things on it. I suspect generally marketing is a reflection of what people want, not a cause of it.
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if someone wanted to make money, going into astrology would be dumber than going into the stock market, though
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spiritual is not quite the same thing as 'believes in astrology'
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