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Daniel Hruschka — You Can’t Characterize Human Nature If Studies Overlook 85 Percent Of People On Earth

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Non-random sampling. … a nonrandom sample tells us about a population, but we don’t know how precisely: we can’t determine a margin of error or a confidence level. A lot of mistakes occur from generalizing special cases. This tendency to overgeneralize, along with the tendency to absolutize, often infects formulation of assumptions in "scientific" modeling.econintersectYou Can't Characterize Human Nature If Studies Overlook 85 Percent Of People On Earth Daniel Hruschka | Professor and Associate Director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change , Arizona State University Originally published at The Conversation

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Non-random sampling.
… a nonrandom sample tells us about a population, but we don’t know how precisely: we can’t determine a margin of error or a confidence level.
A lot of mistakes occur from generalizing special cases. This tendency to overgeneralize, along with the tendency to absolutize, often infects formulation of assumptions in "scientific" modeling.

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You Can't Characterize Human Nature If Studies Overlook 85 Percent Of People On Earth

Daniel Hruschka | Professor and Associate Director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change , Arizona State University
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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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