Social science is secular theology.
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It’s even easier to lie with numbers than with words
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Many people use the identity “nerd” to pretend to be a scientist, but they are only hermit crabs, stealing a discarded shell
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It’s amazing what you will do when a crowd cheers for you to do it
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Everyone is tempted to lie to impress others, unless they think honesty will score them more points
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The more people pay attention to you, the less you can say
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We evolved to be discontent. It’s adaptive
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The contrarian, upon finding a group of people who share his ideas, feels compelled to attack them
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Stop pretending you’ve read so many books that you haven’t. A chapter, an introduction, a summary, a Wikipedia article don’t count
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The condition of man is to be a little too obsessed with novelty, to our detriment
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That is your condition (and mine's), not everybody's. Otherwise, great thread.
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