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Cinder
@Triquetrea
"We found a correlation and then we made up a reason for it." - Every study like this ever.
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Rolf Degen
@DegenRolf
"Upper-body strength shapes the political views of human males such that stronger males are more opposed to collectively enforced egalitarian distributions of resources." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
If you performed a metaanalysis of studies on associations between political views and personal characteristics, the list of correlations would be longer than I am tall. But no, upper-body strength in particular is causative. Sure.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
There are plenty of scientists tweeting out really cool studies and ideas. Most of those studies and ideas will turn out to be horseshit, though. Even if they're cool.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
It's not that the effect isn't necessarily related to anything of real consequence (although sometimes that's the case). It's that you touch a strand in a web. Then the mind declares "I have here a rope that will take me to the source."
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