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plf515  ·  4638 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Ecological Fallacy
Certainly we evolved in ways that were (and are) useful to us in trying to survive. We need heuristics, because we don't always have the time or the resources to reason things out. Yet these heuristics can lead us astray.