I upvoted this post simply because I appreciate the OP having the courage to touch on a taboo topic.
Also I love this paragraph:
When I say “A guy does D when G happens” please read: “There are statistically significant, or theoretically significant reasons from social endocrinology, or social and evolutionary psychology to believe that under circumstances broadly similar to G, human males, on average, will be inclined towards behaving in manners broadly similar to the D way. Also, most tests are made with western human males, tests are less than 40 years old, subject to publication bias, and sometimes done by people who don’t understand math well enough to do their statistics homework, they have not been replicated several times, and they are less homogenous than physics, because psychology is more complex than physics.”
Having said that I will not be incorporating his advice into my life. Why?
Well I learned social skills later in my childhood and adolescence than most other people, I also acquired them more deliberately and consciously than most people. Having said that, I eventually developed a social skills intuition. I’ve learned it’s usually best to trust my intuition. Mating really is a situation where it’s best to become a jedi and use the force rather then whip out the targeting computer.
For me, this post might actually be an epistemic/instrumental tradeoff. It is epistemically rational to believe this information, but it is instrumentally rational to ignore it.
I upvoted this post simply because I appreciate the OP having the courage to touch on a taboo topic.
Also I love this paragraph:
Having said that I will not be incorporating his advice into my life. Why?
Well I learned social skills later in my childhood and adolescence than most other people, I also acquired them more deliberately and consciously than most people. Having said that, I eventually developed a social skills intuition. I’ve learned it’s usually best to trust my intuition. Mating really is a situation where it’s best to become a jedi and use the force rather then whip out the targeting computer.
For me, this post might actually be an epistemic/instrumental tradeoff. It is epistemically rational to believe this information, but it is instrumentally rational to ignore it.