- Econ grad schools should add as a requirement for the PhD that students take a recent published experiment and attempt to replicate it.
- Not accepting American Express is a local public good. Because once enough of them do it, I stop expecting that it will be accepted and stop offering it on the first try.
- Homosexuality is a puzzle for evolution not because of the question “how does it survive despite not reproducing?” Because for a gene reproduction *is* survival. The puzzle is “how do they reproduce despite not wanting to?”
- Books get made into films all the time, why do poems rarely get made into pop songs?
- Why is it easier to apologize when the offended party isn’t actually upset?
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April 8, 2013 at 7:31 am
Laura
#1 would help with this :
https://cheaptalk.org/2012/03/13/the-irony-of-replication/
April 8, 2013 at 8:09 am
Andy
If the offended party isn’t really upset, then there is no risk involved. Normally apologies involve a small amount of risk that the offended party will either reject your apology or, more likely, fake-accept it but still think less of you.
Btw, I think #4 is an excellent point. People should really get on this. The closest I can think of an example of this is the band Phish, who have an external lyric-writer. The guy just writes lots of poems and sometimes Phish turns them into songs.
June 10, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Jarine
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April 8, 2013 at 8:11 am
José Antonio Espín Sánchez
#3 Evolution.
I found this article about slave ants and how LESS aggressiveness is an evolutionary tool. http://www.ugr.es/~oli/2003_Sociobiology.pdf
Less aggressive ants “slave” antes suffer less casualties during the “conquest” and are treated better by their masters. The key here is that the “masters” always succeed conquering the “slaves.
If we think that the probability of success is smaller than 1 (and close to zero), then it might be that MORE aggressiveness is an evolutionary tool: the more aggressive “slaves” will succeed defending their colony with greater probability and then, grow more. (If free ants reproduce faster than slave ants).
April 8, 2013 at 8:13 am
José Antonio Espín Sánchez
(There should be a point of probability of success such that the two effects counteract each other, so that aggressiveness is neutral for survival).
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April 8, 2013 at 11:20 am
Watchmaker
I always enjoy these posts.
5. An apology is lowering your own status. It’s harder to do apologize to angry people because they might not respond graciously.
3. There are explanations that avoid both phrasings of the question. Perhaps homosexuality is analogous to mutations that cause sickle-cell anemia. If you’re born with “a little bit” of the sickle-cell, then you’re malaria resistant. This promotes sickle-cell in the population even though, sometimes, children will be born with too much sickle-cell, and then they are damaged by the gene.
All that said, the right question might be “why do genes that carry the risk of giving your children homosexuality allow you to have more kids?” To my eyes, homosexuality looks like a side-effect of humans playing a mixed strategy game against other humans.
April 9, 2013 at 12:56 am
rickstark90
3. It seems to me there may be a benefit to /families/ with homosexuals. Historically, the extended family has had a much larger role in raising children then now, so having a small number of people who have no kids of their own would give the entire unit more flexibility. This is an evolutionary way to ensure that latitude. A gay man’s sister who benefited from that and had the gene as well would pass it on. So the real question would be, why have we suppressed that benefit?
April 15, 2013 at 9:02 pm
Gavin
Re #4. I can think of at least 1 book being made into a song (but not, as yet, a movie) and 1 psalm. No poems. though.
Is it a copyright issue? Or is it that good song writing is poetry anyway? Or, as suggested by a colleague, poetry rythmn and timing can be quite complex and does not easily lend itself to being paired with music.
April 16, 2013 at 5:31 pm
teageegeepea
Greg Cochran would dispute your assumption that there is a genetic cause, and hence that they must be reproducing (or implausibly causing enough additional reproduction among relatives).