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Even if you're right, and you might be, academic anthropology has a history of making wildly universal claims that turn out to only apply to the WEIRD demograph
by notriddle 5y ago
Even if you're right, and you might be, academic anthropology has a history of making wildly universal claims that turn out to only apply to the WEIRD demographics that they have studied.
It's probably for the best that they're more conservative about their claims.
- carbonguy 5y ago> ... academic anthropology has a history of making wildly universal claims that turn out to only apply to the WEIRD demographics that they have studied. A very fair point indeed. It would certainly be unusual to have the opposite be true here.