Potentially interesting thoughts in this thread. Truly-in-the-know people may deliberate about whether the hold of various Marxian doctrines on the young and the impressionable can be countered by objective discourse stemming from a study of humans as humanshttps://twitter.com/pratyasharath/status/1032373231682867201 …
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I believe so. If you teach curious youngsters theories that furnish predictive abilities in the real world, and demonstrate it so, it should immunize them against unmatta rhetorical romanticism
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In my youth I thought that was how I thought I was eager to tell exactly that: theories that yield good predictions. There are no two ways about that and that's how you practice science. However, over time I realized that the thrill I got from making a predictive theory was not
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universal. In fact few of my peers outside of science and several even inside science saw it as wideranging if not universal yardstick. With that I learned that countering the zeal of unmatta romanticism was not easy. It happens even with otherwise smart people who may like data
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Agreed that not everyone cares. The key is showing them the predictive powers of such theories BEFORE they get taken in my romanticism. Imagine understanding Evo psych explanations of sexual dimorphism and then becoming a feminist unmatta. Not so easy.
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