I focus a lot on the way progressive ideology distorts science. But I'm not naive. If conservatives were vastly overrepresented in social science, then they would distort it as well. Ideologues praise science when convenient and denounce it otherwise.
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Do you think progressive ideology is currently distorting evo psych?
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Possibly. I think it’s more equalitarianism that distorts the social sciences, including possibly ev psychology. I’d have to examine the ev Psych journals carefully and look at self-report data et cetera. It’s a hypothesis that’s at least worth considering.
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Replying to @EPoe187 @Evolving_Moloch
But, it’s less biased, in my view, than a lot of social psychology. Although I’m certainly open to criticisms of it on both ideological and methodological grounds.
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IMO a focus on progressive ideology to the exclusion of other biases is eliding serious issues with some areas of evo psychhttps://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/1175468008950525953 …
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Will @Evolving_MolochHow could anyone think someone like 'primal poly', or the folks still pushing the 'semen displacement hypothesis' a decade after it was refuted, or that guy who fabricated the music/sexual selection studies n plagiarized his undergrads, could possibly have an agenda? Unfathomable https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1175278956230017024 … pic.twitter.com/aKVmioGWGT1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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Oh that’s certainly possible. As you know, although I’m very fond of Miller, I think his earlier accounts of sexual selection in humans were wrong and misled some ev psychologists. And I was always very skeptical of ovulation shifts.
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Replying to @EPoe187 @Evolving_Moloch
I am fond of evolutionary psychology in the broad sense of applying evolutionary thinking to the human mind/brain. I don’t care much for one particular “school” of it or another. Whatever best solves the puzzles of human nature.
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Replying to @EPoe187 @Evolving_Moloch
What (helps) solve the puzzles of human nature is keeping in mind that the genetic record has many examples of replacement of Y chromosomes, many of total but none replacing of mt DNA alone. *Lots* of unprog implications about the different selective pressures on men and women
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For example, I bet you'll get better answers considering those implications than what you'll get from this lecture.https://twitter.com/wsuanthropology/status/1181962644963479552 …
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