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> "Most societies" is a meaningless term. Measuring "most" is impossible and any metric is more or less going to come out of a value judgment to begin with. Som
by adamsea 9y ago
> "Most societies" is a meaningless term. Measuring "most" is impossible and any metric is more or less going to come out of a value judgment to begin with. Some human societies have a lot of equality and some have a lot inequality.
I would bet there are true (though perhaps simple or obvious) claims which can be made in sociology and/or anthropology about "most societies." Such, as, perhaps, burying the dead.
Are you a sociologist or anthropologist? Or, do you have some other claim to expertise in this domain? If so, forgive my critique.
- joe_the_user 9y agoFine, I should perhaps say "in this context, 'most societies' is a meaningless term." - though I would hope that contextualizing is obvious. As far as expertise goes, I think all one needs is moderate acquaintance with statistics to learn the "most" is a slippery generalization whenever one gets to get complex phenomena in wide-ranging contexts. And human societies and their interrelations are some of the most complex and slippery of them.
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