Would you call yourself pro-(dating/relationships)science?

Colt_Master · 2025-12-06T16:13:26+00:00

Yes and also my beliefs are aligned to the science.

Edit: are you the person I debated about female attraction to dark triad some time ago? I think you were lol

EugeneCezanne · 2025-12-06T16:33:16+00:00

I'm pro-science. Part of being pro-science is understanding that studies are limited in scope, often circumspect in their research questions, often imperfect in their methodologies, often irreproducible; that the law of small numbers makes many stats irrelevant for any specific individual, and that researchers wisely show much more restraint in their conclusions than laymen who only read the headlines.

Gravel_Roads · 2025-12-06T16:01:43+00:00

I feel like a lot of people here don't know what "debate" really is. It's not just "an argument where you have to make people agree with you." It's a means of following rules of discourse to explore two sides of a perspective. - You don't even have to personally agree with your own position! (Hell, in my debate classes, we didn't even get to choose our position; we were assigned ones and had to defend them, the way a lawyer would still have to defend a client even if they think their client is wrong!)

Science itself isn't about proving points or making people agree with you - it's just learning about the world around us.

You aren't here to "make people see things your way", you're here to join the rest of us in comparing information.

What you choose to do with that information is up to you.

wtknight · 2025-12-06T16:17:39+00:00

Yes, definitely. I enjoy reading studies that try to support evolutionary psychology, even though I recognize that a lot of the field is conjecture and that assumptions are being made based upon similarities between the genders that are discovered cross-culturally.

AngeAware · 2025-12-06T18:45:49+00:00

Would you call yourself "pro-science" in a meaning where you thing study's can change your mind and the maker of study's dont have a hidden agenda or make some idiotic basic mistakes?

The researchers themselves typically have an entire section acknowledging the flaws and limitations of their own methodology and findings. So no, generally speaking they are being transparent and not trying to present their findings as the end-all be-all of a given question. Other people using their work trying to win an argument on the internet do that and then call themselves "pro-science."

RelativeYak7 · 2025-12-06T16:09:50+00:00

Yes, huge fan of dating science, sexology literature and evo psych. I get excited to find out new info and change my mind

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Axis_Control · 2025-12-07T14:44:45+00:00

I'm proscience sure.

Kingcrow33 · 2025-12-06T16:13:53+00:00

Yes. But I need to see the study itself not just the abstract.

Title	Would you call yourself pro-(dating/relationships)science?
Author	Ok_Cook_3098
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Comments	40
Date	December 6, 2025 3:55 PM UTC (7 months ago)
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