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Thanks for the example. Let's break that down. "It's a very rare woman who at the age of 30 doesn't consider having a child her primary desire." Evidence shows this to be the case.…

He doesn't discriminate against men or women. There is no evidence of that in his hundreds of hours of lectures or interviews or books. His wife and daughter would also disagree wi…

True true. But can't you just keep using that logic all the way back?

Obviously Google doesn't place values over profits. Let's be brutally honest here. Nor do the employees. Are the employees that make $200,000/year donating the extra income to thos…

Probably not Facebook. Just check out this interaction between a NYT journalist and them. https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1065988154308538368

Ironically your comment indicates that you are in a bubble. You reflexively dismissed them by saying "red pill", which is precisely what your bubble tells you how to react to anyth…

It makes sense to base things on probabilities, but it also makes sense to play it safe in some cases. The upside of it predicting him/her is minor and doesn't outweigh the times t…

What does that mean? What will they say or do to the family?

> Telling a laid-off auto worker to switch industries is not a very fair thing to do. But we do that all the time and with good reason. Blockbuster employees and coal miners for ex…

Too bad we didn't call their bluff, and especially that of the banks, and put the bailouts into infrastructure or new industry to replace those jobs and put us in a better position…

> HERE is a trivia question for you: what is the most profitable business in the world? You might think oil, or maybe banking. You would be wrong. The answer is academic publishing…

Make no mistake, anyone born into an advanced country is privileged. We are very privileged and lucky compared to someone born in the Congo. Beyond that it seems rather meaningless…

To the OP's point, how does one scientifically determine that to be causal?

> at which point a boatload of repressed childhood trauma began surfacing. Can you describe this? How did they surface, how were you able to identify the repressed trauma?

The claim is less reliably, not that they can't remember.

> Lots of ways to subtly mislead with cherry-picked stats or the "men don't report reliably anyways, so we can't consider that" hand-waving this article does. Yikes, let's not be m…

Which is why there is the scientific method. Good science is reproducible and provable regardless of what your opinion is. Facts are facts regardless.