(March 23, 2015 at 2:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The counterpoint being that superstition may not be some thing with selective weight, but an effect of a thing with selective weight (or none). Relative selective weight is very difficult to establish, and it's difficult to establish that we ought to or need to assume that those are the parameters with which to approach the question to begin with.
Put another way, before we dive into a long discussion about the relative selective weight of some "x" - we might want to make sure that x actually has a weight.
There's no denying that. It would take way more studies, than the ones I'm (however vaguely) familiar with, to establish that.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
