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→Any discipline worth getting to the top of has a rigid social hierarchy. Don’t overestimate it.
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*We are brilliant at fitting known facts to our narratives - confirmation bias. | *We are brilliant at fitting known facts to our narratives - confirmation bias. | ||
*Curiously, our social sciences are brilliant at explaining how things happened, but utterly hopeless at predicting them in advance. | *Curiously, our social sciences are brilliant at explaining how things happened, but utterly hopeless at predicting them in advance. | ||
=== Any discipline worth getting to the top of has a rigid social hierarchy. Don’t | === Any discipline worth getting to the top of has a rigid social hierarchy. Don’t underestimate it.=== | ||
One of the main aims of any social hierarchy is making sure outsiders can only enter from the bottom. There are perfectly good reasons for this, but they have by products: | One of the main aims of any social hierarchy is making sure outsiders can only enter from the bottom. There are perfectly good reasons for this, but they have by products: | ||