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Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by edmundsauto on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:56PM (#28590253)
Evolutionary bio makes psychology look like Newtonian physics, in terms of objectivity and generalizability.

Statistics show the combined result of nature and nurture. How would you even begin to design an ethical study that could prove causation?

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Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by hirako2000 on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:25AM (#28593042)
Stats and evolutionary biology converge on this topic. On the opposite side, we have politically loaded opinions.
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Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by edmundsauto on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:05PM (#28608582)
And in the middle are most people, who are skeptical about the value from evo bio. Again, the statistics are only descriptive - it is not easy to tease apart nurture from nature.

There's very little reason to think "statistics and evolutionary biology convergence" reveals any truths in this case. The only conclusion to draw here is that confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

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