It may be possible to glean individually-useful information from evolutionary psychology, with a pile of statistical uncertainty. I’m not sure, and not aware of that much in the way of rigorous investigation in applications of applied psychology.
It becomes a problem when both speaker and audience don’t have a grasp on the statistics, and it degrades into a horrible pile of confirmation bias and echo chambers and tribal fealty. I expect lesswrong to handle this better than most places, though what I’ve seen so far is...less than perfect.
It may be possible to glean individually-useful information from evolutionary psychology, with a pile of statistical uncertainty. I’m not sure, and not aware of that much in the way of rigorous investigation in applications of applied psychology.
It becomes a problem when both speaker and audience don’t have a grasp on the statistics, and it degrades into a horrible pile of confirmation bias and echo chambers and tribal fealty. I expect lesswrong to handle this better than most places, though what I’ve seen so far is...less than perfect.