razib, great post. Overall, if there’s a particular weakness among enthusiasts (and “experts”) in rational thinking, it’s a tendency towards overreductionism. Way to often the discussion here goes from Most X are Y to let’s discuss why X is Y. It can be revealing to analyze the subset of X that aren’t Y, as well as the overall distribution of X according to how much they are or aren’t Y. But these other analyses are done or discussed much here at OB, or at most similar sites.
razib, great post. Overall, if there’s a particular weakness among enthusiasts (and “experts”) in rational thinking, it’s a tendency towards overreductionism. Way to often the discussion here goes from Most X are Y to let’s discuss why X is Y. It can be revealing to analyze the subset of X that aren’t Y, as well as the overall distribution of X according to how much they are or aren’t Y. But these other analyses are done or discussed much here at OB, or at most similar sites.