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The Church requires that you've decided this needs to be organized, all you need to start praying before you go hunt for food is superstition. The Princes Alic
by tialaramex 3y ago
The Church requires that you've decided this needs to be organized, all you need to start praying before you go hunt for food is superstition.
The Princes Alice experiments show why superstition might be valuable (and so get preserved in a culture) if you don't have much technology to provide oversight. Children were told to perform a task and that an (invisible) Princess, Alice is watching to check they don't cheat while the adults are away. Superstitious children didn't cheat because they believed in Alice watching them. The non-superstitious children cheated, after first verifying that in fact Alice does not seem to exist (e.g. passing their hand through space supposedly occupied by the invisible princess)