not sure if i am following you here
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Replying to @tr4nsmute
my original tweet involved a bunch of causation statements. the study, properly, refrained from those because causation was way beyond its scope. but if you're refraining from talking about causation, like you should, people can then put whatever words they want in your mouth
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Replying to @chaosprime @tr4nsmute
with regard to what causation you thought might be occurring or what causation you were looking for or what causation you wanted to be occurring
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Replying to @chaosprime @tr4nsmute
and given the incentives of social media and pop kulturkampf, they would have to be bad at these things to not put the words in your mouth that get them the most attention and clout
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Replying to @chaosprime
ok, gotcha. i still don't see any point in measuring attractiveness in absence of any plausible hypothesis. could it have been caused by early sexual encounters? cool just measure that. could it be the estrogen levels? measure that.
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Replying to @tr4nsmute @chaosprime
basically, i don't see what measuring the attractiveness of women added to that study
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Replying to @tr4nsmute
and that's the whole thing, isn't it? considering women in terms of their attractiveness is *immoral*, so some other lens should have been found irrespective of what the actual observation you were trying to document was
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Replying to @chaosprime
i get what you're saying. i am not being moralistic here. i am saying it didn't actually make any sense to make it the center piece of the study because it doesn't add anything to the body of knowledge. if you want to confirm your hunch, yes very well you could have rated them
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Replying to @tr4nsmute @chaosprime
Who the hell do you think you are to decide what isn't permissible knowledge? Attractiveness is one of the most tangible things in life, everyone experiences that in their day to day, it's completely dishonest to pretend that this isn't important.
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Replying to @HistoricIdeal @chaosprime
i am saying it's not important in this context
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well, that's definitely how science proceeds, by deciding based on intuition what's important in a given context and only documenting results about that
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