Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology" video.

He's smart enough to know that he doesn't know waaaaaaaaaaay more than he does know. The brain is still such a mystery.
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sniffle hug glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. The education system needs a top to bottom overhaul.
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"A 2013 review concluded that menstrual synchrony likely does not exist." Are you sure you know...any women? I don't mean to be so flippant, but FFS I can't believe this is still up for debate. He never says it happens in every instance, but rather that it IS a phenomenon that does happen, and boy does it ever. I've seen this in several different cities I've lived in and heard from so many independent sources about this happening to them it's undeniable. The only thing up for debate is the frequency, but it's most certainly not zero and not even close to it. I've witnessed it first hand, and it does tend to go according to the alpha's schedule. I have an ex who went to an all girls school and for goddamn sure it happened there is spades. Poor teachers.
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Agreed, and I'd like to add #5: Jordan Peterson: Human Behavior
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@Shadow-In-The-East FFS, witnessing it first hand in a variety of settings IS data. Often times anecdotes become "data" as soon as someone at a school writes them down on paper. It's like how we dismiss what people say today as just cheap talk, yet if we see it written in a journal from 100 years ago we cite it as a credible historical fact. Anecdote is "my aunt's friend had a canary who...". Witnessing the same thing over and over all over, over the course of every generation is not just anecdotes. You too clearly do not know any women.
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I keep a list of quotes and I added that to the list. Glad I'm not the only one who saw the beauty in it.
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@reddre3995 The jargon humble-brag is very common with people who just got out of school. I had so many friends who went in sounding like normal people but came out like a thesaurus exploded all over a psyche degree.
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It's interesting that it's a "thing" now where people, usually on the younger side, are impressed with the fact they do something for 45min-1hr or more straight. To us old folks, and hour is fuck-all.
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I was bombing my grade 12 geography course. 30%. Then I dropped out of it and took it by correspondence. I got an A. I loved learning from the book. It was like reading National Geographic and I loved it, and finished in 7 weeks. The book was SO much better than my teacher.
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@OfftoShambala Amen. Look no further than how countless people have dropped their medications (and weight) buy ingesting more carrots and less pills. They push complicated medicines that come with complicated, uh...complications when the answer is right in the produce section of your local supermarket. I've red reports on how long it takes the average medical community (almost any speciality will suffice) to implement the latest research and discoveries into their practices. I don't mean some brand new discovery that's yet to be scrutinzed, I mean absolutely proven many-times-over advances. Sometimes these advances take well over a decade before they're widely administered, and some never do it at all. It's scary.
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@chrissedgwick8635 Very well put rebuttal. I don't disagree. A good example of "everyone" being wrong is that tennis study of slow motion footage that proved that 99% of teachers and tennis pros were dead wrong about a major component of their swing, so they'd been teaching it wrong. I also don't put nearly as much stock in the holy gospel of peer reviewed science as most because I'm not an academic, but I'm aware of the replication crisis. I take everything with a grain of salt. I just get triggered, so to speak, when people act like "peer review or it doesn't exist" as if that's the be-all end-all of truth.
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The amount of information your university had, every course combined, doesn't even come within a country mile of the amount of information the device you watch this video on has. For free.
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If YT is recommending celeb stuff it's because you watch it on your own. I literally never ever have celeb stuff recommended to me, or gossipy type stuff.
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Till him to coach the Canadian PM. (Not trying to turn this political, he's just an example of the worst high profile speaker ever. 6yrs in power and it's all "Um, uh, and....and...., etc couple with extreme arrogance. It's hard to listen to him regardless of what comes out of his mouth)
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@KP3droflxp This is patently untrue. Of course proper experiments are incredibly important and aren the gold standard for a reason, but my point stands that people sometimes take this concept way too far. Some people "worship" the scientific method with a religious zeal. Some people refuse to accept any idea that's not expressly written about in the Bible, and some deny the existence of anything not yet peer reviewed, even if it goes against their own common sense. It's like they NEED somebody else to verify reality before they can accept it. Besides, studies should be taken with a grain of salt anyway. Research the replication problem in academia. It's a well known full-out crisis. Don't assume everything in a peer reviewed study is gospel, and don't assume something not peer reviewed is not, especially when it CLEARLY exists. So it's a coincidence that at an all girl's school the cycles often sync up with the alpha of the cliques? Right. Or maybe you really don't know any females.
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@chrissedgwick8635 I believe that some of the time it's a coincidence. Maybe even often. I'm sure that happens and people attribute it to something else because humans are prone to finding patterns that aren't there. But I'm also 100% sure that sometimes it's not. I've seen it far too many times for it to be purely chance every single time. Women's sports teams seem quite prone to this, which makes sense because sports is nothing but a dominance hierarchy. I've heard so many stories from girls about this happening to them and their bestie as well. And to entirely shrug off the reality all around me because "the plural of anecdote isn't data" is just as silly as feeling that all anecdotes are data.
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@katerineella274 "And most people don't use the internet for intellectual growth." -Ya think? ;-P Yes, I think it would definitely be better to be learning this stuff in a room full of like-minded people for sure. Perhaps I took your comment too literally, as in you needed to be in University to have access to the information. I was probably just cranky when I wrote that.
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@katerineella274 I wish more people had your reactions. People usually care more about the truth than how something makes them feel. There's a reason smooth talkers can get people on board with batshit crazy ideas. Also, text is the most cumbersome medium ever. In person I'm a goofy dork who is often dryly sarcastic, but thats so much harder to convey via text.
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@katerineella274 Speaking of things coming out wrong, I said "People usually care more about the truth than how something makes them feel." Obviously I meant the opposite. More people get offended by the truth than seek it out. They feel like facts that goes against their opinion are an indictment on them as a human being. Learning you're wrong is a good thing. By its very nature it means you've learned and grown. Good god, I sound like corny teen movie with a "message" people roll their eyes at. Yes people get offended by text. I really like meeting people in person before too much communication goes by because eventually I'll say something via text that gets taken the wrong way otherwise. If someone had a written transcript of all my conversations I'd seem like the worst person ever, or at the very least I'd seem hopelessly bipolar. Or maybe I really am just a prick.
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