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> > On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does EP >> generate testable predictions? Does EP advance our *practical* >> knowledge of human nature? > > Well, I haven't really looked hard yet, but I actually came upon > this just yesterday: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUd8XA-5HEk&feature=youtube_gdata Not exactly double blind--or even single blind--is it? Anyway, since nobody of any species gained knowledge of even elementary mathematical statistics from evolution, its absence in two primate species doesn't exactly tell anyone very much (unless the existence of casinos and hippodromes indicates some "EP" selection for the virulence of this sort of ignorance among humans--I'm sure some EP scientist can come up with a hypothetical "advantage" which that particular stupidity conferred on our ancestors sometime a few million years ago). Shane Mage "All things are an equal exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods are for gold and gold for goods." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr, 90 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
