Gwern's deep dive into Calhoun's scholarship suggests taking his "results", & popular/stylized glosses thereof, with some pretty big grains of salt - in line wi

Gwern's deep dive into Calhoun's scholarship suggests taking his "results", & popular/stylized glosses thereof, with some pretty big grains of salt - in line with the fall from academic prominence described in later parts of this article. Gwern's abstract: > Did John Calhoun’s 1960s Mouse Utopia really show that animal (and human) populations will expand to arbitrary densities, creating socially-driven pathology and collapse? Reasons for doubt. https://gwern.net/mouse-utopia https://gwern.net/mouse-utopia