Ok I am going to explain my /snark comment earlier. At the thunderdome thread I noticed this:
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ChasCPeterson
30 January 2013 at 7:51 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
forget it, SC, I meant what I said. I stuck out the conversation here to the bitter, bitter end, and when you chose to revive it Gish-style on your own blog, I tried gamely there too. Your response, as you’ll recall, was to flush two (2) long Marjonović-style replies, posted in good faith and not without some time and effort, away down the permanent memory-hole. So fuck you.
So following further comments Chas linked to here:
http://terrapinprocrastination.blogspot ... quest.html
Which I read, and the gist of it appears to be the hashing out of some details of an argument between himself and SC about this paper I have linked below. You really need to read it to understand what happened to Chas. I suggest you read the paper and the commentary I linked below first, then the comment I linked to above.
Sex differences in response to children's toys in nonhuman primates (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus)
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/ ... 1/fulltext
Later on Chas linked to this :
Commentary: Monkeys, girls, boys and toys: A confirmation Comment on “Sex differences in toy preferences: Striking parallels between monkeys and humansâ€
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2643016/
I read them both. Nothing controversial there at all. Not even remotely.
Thus, sex differences in children’s toy preferences appear to be multiply determined; innate influences are augmented by social encouragement, particularly in boys.
But, not to worry because:
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daniellavine
30 January 2013 at 2:48 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
@Chas:
You need to relax. Skepticism is good for science and the vervet study is…prima facie implausible to be kind about it. Pushing back against it will at worst lead to better and more significant results.
And hey!
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ChasCPeterson
30 January 2013 at 2:52 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
You need to relax.
thank you for that helpful advice.
Think I’ll do just that.
*shakes head*
Chas old chap, if you hang out with people educated way beyond their ability to utilize it, and continue to do so after repeated demonstrations to that effect, then yes, you do need to relax.
You may as well lie back and enjoy it too!
(of course Chas should know by now he is trying to have an intelligent conversation with ideological morons, so perhaps he is into self abuse or whatever)