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I Debunked Evolutionary Psychology - münecat (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Prunebutt to c/breadtube

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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.

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[–] Prunebutt 10 points 3 months ago

The video addresses the social impact evopsych pundits currently have, especially when it comes to "mating behaviour". From what I've gathered, there's more or less two camps of evopsych: Theories that explain states of fear or that the only conditioning that only needs one exposure to manifest is disgust and theories that claim that women smell genetical traits in potential mates when ovulating. One of these is valid, the other one is used by conservatives to justify the status quo.

The video tackles the social phenomenon and all the pseudo-scientific grifters who perpetuate regressive worldviews (pseudo-scientific grifters are usually a target of her videos). I actually gsnuinely learned something about genetics from the video, so I think it's worth the watch.

And the video also adresses that there are a ton of badly done, but published and cited papers in evopsych. That's a well established problem of psychology: lots of papers can't be reproduced in psychology and are over-cited, due to a bias against doing control studies.