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Richard Carrier´s criticism of sociobiology a.k.a. evolutionary psychology.
Note the connections he makes to the replication crisis in science, which seems to affect the field of psychology in particular. This fact alone may invalidate most of "EvoPsych", since many of the phenomena it´s trying to explain might not even exist!
The author also points out that most psychological tests are made on US college students, despite the fact that they (surprise) aren´t representative of the world population, being raised in a society that´s "WEIRD" (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic). In fact, college students today are obviously not very representative of American society either. (Jokingly, we could say that they are more queer than weird.)
I was also surprised to learn that teddy bears are considered female-gendered toys in the US. Always saw them as unisex or even male-gendered...
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