Earl. (a) there aren’t many, despite our desperate search for them. We can’t fin

Earl.
(a) there aren’t many, despite our desperate search for them. We can’t find a single woman that’s theoretical rather than empirical.
(b) There has been a postwar (really post-1960) decline in scientific thought brought about by the introgression of pseudoscience and ‘mathiness’ (the mathematical equivalent) and we appear to just be coming out of it.
(c) I’ve done extensive work on civilizational differences in thought – more than any other – by studying civilizational differences in argument and lying. So Europeans aren’t just W.I.E.R.D., we really do think differently. And high trust oddly makes you think differently too. And even so subtle a thing as English language being evolved for law and as such for science has an effect on cognition, and particularly for innovative cognition.
(d) I can’t verify (yet) if the claims that the northern European gene pool is biased to the autistic end of the spectrum (Systematizing). But we’ll know within a decade or so.
So pre-war claims that people in different civilizations thought differently were only overstated. They weren’t false. Which… has been surprising to all of us.

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