The Dark Professor (rare archetype)

@evopsychgoogle.bsky.social

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professor of evolutionary psychology. under investigation for academic misconduct

one of Earth's top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work, open for all to read in a widely read venue on that science topic, where it will receive far more peer scrutiny than any lesser forum provides
'The Claw Grip': Why Are Women Always Holding Thing? - The New York Times
Finally, we analyzed associations with fictional predictors to demonstrate that the evolutionary explanation is no better than any other explanation one can come up with by correlating gender differences with any variables higher in the West, such as a medical conspiracy. The average correlations between gender differences and our fictional explanations are presented in Table 2 (see SI Appendix, Table S3.1.1 and section 3.1 for a detailed table for each study, together with motivations for the fictional explanations). All variables were comparable or stronger predictors than gender equality, and no predictor had stronger overall correlations than the simple Western indicator. The same was true in comparison to other developmental variables (see below). Consequently, if the GEP had been picked up by people forwarding any of these alternative accounts, rather than evolutionary researchers, they would have found just as much support for their assertions from these data. Thus, there is no evidence that the predictors identified by the evolutionary perspective have any special relationship with the gender differences, or display discriminant validity, as expected if they drove the association. Rather, all relationships appeared to be a consequence of the variables’ association with the West.
"how is it that babies are born with the innate knowledge of how to crash a car? it can't be evolutionary because cars are too recent. yet without fail, all newborn babies I put at the wheel successfully crash the vehicle in seconds" - Pernicus
Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) tweets: Today I learned that almost nobody who comments on women having babies with billionaires has any understanding of the 'polygyny threshold model' (Orians, 1969) Pro tip: before stigmatizing 'single motherhood', consider.the genetic quality of the sire.
Many with 200 IQ Explains the Secrets of Reality
Tweets from Luigo Mangione Part 1/ When someone denies that human psych is evolved, I start with the initial logical statement “evolution is real” and then try to build up to “the human mind is evolved” through a series of lemmas (stepping stones) Part 2/7 Understanding where in the chain of lemmas the person disagrees with me sheds light into why they reject evolutionary psychology
Luigi Mangione only followed 73 people, one of them being the evolutionary psychologist, William Costello, from David Buss's lab
A tweet from Luigi Mangione: Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.
Luigi Mangione tweets: Part 1/3 I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems: "All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could've easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!" Part 2/3 But now I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would've had access to. Part 3/3 If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, If 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, Then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I'd say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks
Elon Musk Musk asks ‘high-IQ revolutionaries’ to work for no pay on new Trump project
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