Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedPaul Bloom: belief
7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“I think we tend to be good parents because the sort of person who becomes a psychologist is probably more sensitive to other people’s feelings, well-educated, and tends to be affluent enough to provide kids with good stuff.”
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…So you don’t think, say, that you’re better parents, on average? No, I don’t. I think we tend to be good parents because the sort of person who becomes a psychologist is probably more sensitive to other people’s feelings, well-educated, and tends to be affluent enough to provide kids with good stuff. But no, not any more so than an anthropologist or a biochemist. Let’s say I took two economists, and I flew them to a poor nation that they didn’t really know anything about, and I asked them to make some guesses about what might be wrong with the economy. They would do better than equivalently smart people who are not economists. What’s the feature of psychological research that stops it from translating into higher understanding? How do you model what you all produce?…
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