[ExI] question for Henry

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 20:12:46 UTC 2021


Evolutionary psych came along after my retirement.  I have read quite a
bit, but think that it seems to explain things very well, but I don't know
of its ability to predict the outcome of experiments and studies.    Some
theories are good at post hoc explanations but don't predict well.  bill w

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 3:08 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* [ExI] question for Henry
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> *Ellis Michaels* requested your answer…*What branch of psychology has the
> most predictive power in everyday life: social psych, evolutionary psych,
> etc.?*
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> Billw, you addressed the question to Henry who is a professional in the
> field, but I might offer this: once I learned of it, the notion of
> evolutionary psychology has enormous power in observations otherwise
> difficult to explain.  I see examples of it everywhere, and some examples
> where it works really well.  Keith Henson introduced me to it, and he was a
> big fan.  My concern is that it is very susceptible to confirmation bias,
> perhaps more than other branches.
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