Education is mostly a marker of class identity. High IQ means you know 2ε instead of ε. Informedness ~= pro wrestling fandom
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Which is why it works as a shibboleth. Now consider the weather.
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People have a stake in true beliefs about the weather. We have a well-developed theory of the weather.
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Knowing the weather in advance is worth billions. (Katrina did 1/8 trillion in damages). And yet...we can't do it well.
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We can't predict much further forward than about a week, and probably never will.
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The welfare of a country is like creationism, in that your beliefs are never going to matter much except as shibboleths...
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...and like the weather, in that it's nearly impossible to predict. This suggests that politics isn't about politics.
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Would you call it team identity?
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Aside from professional sports, what else do we have?
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Why would belief in it be exceptionally relevant to working biologists?
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As an organizing principle it makes sense of masses of data that are otherwise incompressible.
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And it suggests testable conjectures (eg morphological and genetic similarities go together).
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