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- ghazi
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- ghazi
Edit - Addendum: The video title is quite clickbait-y. The video doesn’t want to debunk any “serious” science, but rather investigates how badly done research with no reproducability or horrible statistical significance is used to influence the discourse in favour of regressive politics.
I think the video is very much for someone like you. It actually addresses why eugenics is always a bad idea, even if we know what genes are “bad” and “good”, since evolution follows the strategy of increasing the variance of inheritable traits in order to make life resilient to catastrophic events.
No one criticizes behavioral ecology or game theory. You brought those up, but they don’t have anything to do with the video at hand.
The issues of evolutionary psychology isn’t that humans supposedly didn’t “partake in evolution”, but rather that it has inherent problems with the scientific method. Most evopsych theses can’t be tested and are prone to just-so justification. Seriously: watch the video. It’s all it there.
The video is 3 hours, 21 minutes and some seconds long. I watched the beginning, end and some samples from the center. The video is too long, she accuses others of communication failures and bad-faith communication (with good reason), but is also doing a communication failure.
To be blunt, the title of the video is also a false or exaggerated statement, hinting of the author’s excessive ambition. I think I was generous enough to try catching the point without devoting 3.5 hours to it.
I do not think you would welcome if I watched all the video, made notes about every problem, and posted them. I think you would consider that obsessive (well, at least I would).
There are behaviour patterns in animals and humans which evolutionary psychology can help explain, and knowing how evolution (past societies, past models of competing and cooperating, past interactions with food, disease, parasites and predators) can shape the psychological profiles of creatures is useful. There will be poor research in almost every field. I’m aware that psychology has a widely known problem with experiment repeatability. That’s no reason to discontinue doing psychology (or discontinue doing experiments). It’s a reason to increase diligence and to slow down jumping to conclusions.
You’re constantly making points already made in the video.
Edit: why are you on a breadtube community if you don’t like to watch hour long videos? Ever heard of hbomberguy, or Contrapoints?
Btw: Here’s the explanation why eugenics doesn’t work in the video
Actually, I’m not in the Breadtube community, I’m just a user of the “slrpnk.net” Lemmy server. Thus, I noticed the video on my feed, and as I explained above, it caught my attention because the title claimed to have “debunked” something that I was familiar with and had found useful.
Thank you, but you don’t need to explain me why eugenics was a bad idea. :) I understand that.
Nope, never heard about them.
You still critizised a video without watching it. That’s as close to judging a book by its’ cover as you can get.
As stated before, I watched the beginning, end, and various samples from the center.
You can not invalidate criticism by publishing a N-hour video and complaining that the critics didn’t watch every second.
Let’s switch perspective for a moment: if I publish a 24-hour video titled “I debunked classical mechanics” and talked about journalism during 23 hours of it, I should not be able to deflect criticism with the claim that “you didn’t watch all of it”.
Part of my criticism is inability to come up with short and falsifiable points. Public communication about science pretty much requires doing that. Already in my first post, I mentioned that I thought the video was needlessly long.
And yes, I’m not a fan of misleading people. When I see someone doing that, yes, I will criticize.
I’d claim that your samples aren’t enough to make anything about the contents of the video. You could claim that the title is misleading, but you clearly don’t have enough context to judge the video.
It’s a video essay, you act like you watched scenes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy and concurred that the firms are too long to convey the story.
You’re constantly ignoring that a field has a societal context. Evopsych books didn’t fall from the sky. The field has active members and the cultural impact is what’s being judged here.
You could have just stayed silent, if you don’t have anything valid to add, instead of mansplaining us to death.
Yes, my mistake was to think that people might benefit from pointing out problems with the information sources they consume. In reality, people get defensive, especially if an outsider comes to criticize (also a pattern which evolutionary psychology helps understand).
You didn’t point out jack shit, as you didn’t know any of the so-called “problems”, but rather assumed before you started mansplaining.
Also: isn’t that exactly what you did? Someone points out problems with evopsych and you got defensive?
Yeah, I call bullshit. That statement alone is ample example of all the bullshit flying around in evolutionary psychology.
BTW: Earlier you wrote
I call bullshit again. You stated earlier that eugenics would work if we knew the “good” from the “bad” genes and called it more euphemistically. That’s exactly the bullshit that the video calls out… once again.