We have to deal with rubbish evo psych study described here: "homosexual women evolved for men's pleasure." NO.https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/865610903986819072 …
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Replying to @NotAnAardappel @OtherSociology
If you believe in evolution, you'd probably suspect it's pretty important. The tragedy is we don't have more liberal evo psych profs.
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A major problem with evo psych: A tendency to wrongly assume that everything about humans is subject to significant evolutionary selection.
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No doubt. Doesn't seem to really invalidate the whole discipline though.
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Evo psych as a concept might not be invalid. The discipline as it currently exists is.
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Replying to @michael_w_busch @low_tex and
eg hard to see reason in evolutionary selection of tendency to overinterpret scant evidence & render personal inclinations as theory
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Exactly. So much subjective bias built into these type of studies. It's in the framing: why are women lesbians? Must be for men's advantage
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