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People used to have no problem reproducing whatsoever and now they do. Can't blame birth control because they are not even doing it in the first place. Looking

People used to have no problem reproducing whatsoever and now they do. Can't blame birth control because they are not even doing it in the first place. Looking at newly emerged obstacles to dating is a valid scientific hypothesis. Got a better one?

vkou 4y ago
There is nothing valid or scientific about an undisprovable just-so story, which is what 95% of evo-psych is. The other 5% doesn't make claims that are very useful in internet arguments.
staticman2 4y ago
Hypothesis is defined as " a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation." Also am I to understand that you will be conducting an experiment as to whether or not we should clutch our pearls when a boss dates a secretary? And you have little evidence in support of this notion at the present time, you were proposing it to begin your investigation? As for people having no trouble reproducing, well... lots of people had lots of trouble reproducing. Evolution doesn't work if everyone reproduces. There pretty much has to be a whole lot of people not reproducing for natural selection to "select" the ones who will be reproducing. I think you really mean people in recent years had no trouble reproducing but I'm being pendantic and just wanted to push back a little on the idea we should expect everyone to reproduce. I already gave you one evolutionary psychiatrist's vague proposal for why we should have trouble reproducing: we no longer live in the evolutionary environment, so it wouldn't be unexpected to see us not acting like our ancestors. It's vague enough that it isn't obviously wrong, or obviously made up by someone trying to sell you something. While "we shouldn't clutch our pearls when a boss dates a secretary" sounds suspiciously like what someone would say who is trying to sell us something I don't believe you have such a motivation, but I recall watching a lecture where the professor was saying how all the old evolutionary psychiatrist professors were divorcing their wives to hook up with young women half their age. They were clearly inventing a justification for their behavior, or drawn to that field because of their personal oddities.

vkou 4y ago

There is nothing valid or scientific about an undisprovable just-so story, which is what 95% of evo-psych is. The other 5% doesn't make claims that are very useful in internet arguments.

staticman2 4y ago

Hypothesis is defined as " a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation." Also am I to understand that you will be conducting an experiment as to whether or not we should clutch our pearls when a boss dates a secretary? And you have little evidence in support of this notion at the present time, you were proposing it to begin your investigation? As for people having no trouble reproducing, well... lots of people had lots of trouble reproducing. Evolution doesn't work if everyone reproduces. There pretty much has to be a whole lot of people not reproducing for natural selection to "select" the ones who will be reproducing. I think you really mean people in recent years had no trouble reproducing but I'm being pendantic and just wanted to push back a little on the idea we should expect everyone to reproduce. I already gave you one evolutionary psychiatrist's vague proposal for why we should have trouble reproducing: we no longer live in the evolutionary environment, so it wouldn't be unexpected to see us not acting like our ancestors. It's vague enough that it isn't obviously wrong, or obviously made up by someone trying to sell you something. While "we shouldn't clutch our pearls when a boss dates a secretary" sounds suspiciously like what someone would say who is trying to sell us something I don't believe you have such a motivation, but I recall watching a lecture where the professor was saying how all the old evolutionary psychiatrist professors were divorcing their wives to hook up with young women half their age. They were clearly inventing a justification for their behavior, or drawn to that field because of their personal oddities.