Understanding the weirdness of humans

As a transgender woman I couldn't agree more: since early childhood I had no interest whatsoever in manly activities, I loved however taking care after kids, sewing and cooking Nobody made me do it, quite the contrary, people tried hard to discourage me Until today a lot of people still think don't understand how being transgender works

I could listen to Lloyd talk about everything and nothing all at once forever and ever

For all those who're curious: No, that is not Count Dooku in the picture.

5 years old, but got back to this for some reason.
Have to say, there are also societal expectations that play a role in how people turn out. Sonething you can't just gloss over.
So the claim that the "Swedish study" showed that nature is a great influence fails to take into account an immense amount of variables.

reminds me of men doing tests for seatbelts using crashtest dummies ....

Its funny. I hardly used cameras till I had one on my phone to snap digital pics. But at one point, for a very short while in my life, I knew how to develop my own photos. I learned how to do it and then after that, I never had the access to the stuff to do it and I didn't particularly want that access because some of the chemicals involved were really smelly. But I quickly forgot how to do it and now its completely irrelevant.

“One is sent to France….doesn’t bear thinking about.” 😂

Oh!

The issue with "not enough women in X workforce" isn't that it's "engineering is better when women do it." Nobody has seriously argued that there would be a significant difference in favor. I'm not sure you understand egalitarianism at all if you make that basic mistake in thinking that liberalism is necessarily practical. Pretty much everything in liberalism -- the belief that individuals should have a say in the way their society operates -- is based on deontology, not utilitarianism. And not enough women being in a workforce biases that workforce against women. So if there are only 33% of women wanting to go into a field, but it's 90% geared toward men, guess what happens? Fewer women join or stay with that workforce that the initial percentage.

BEYOND HILARIOUS to attribute engineering jobs to evolution. You offer zero support for the idea, except that in three countries more men are engineers than women? You discount entirely that bias against women exists in those countries, without any examination. You have clearly never in your life met a Scandinavian man. You clearly don't understand that Scandinavian countries have isolated, formalistic societies, and just because they self-report high equality does not mean they share the ideals of liberalism as an inherent social quality.

I'm not sure why you refer to plebian, populist ideas about sex as "social science" -- social science across the board accepts the idea of brain chemistry differences between men and women. Have you ever even read a social science or social psychology text book in your life? You must be aware that educators also misrepresent evolution, teaching effectively Lamarckism because doing so is easier. Would you blame evolutionary biology for Lamarckism among junior high school teachers who winged it through with an arts bachelor's degree?

I would be interested in knowing how many people stopped watching immediately after "this video has nothing to do with swords."

Human weirdness is very splicable.

It’s magic. Everything is magic.

Lloyd evaluation theory is just as much faith based as anything else. Evolution hasn’t been proven as fact, the theory has massive unexplained holes everywhere. And guess what ITS JUST A THEORY. That’s why it’s called the evolution theory and not the fact of evolution. In truth religion explains a whole lot more and by completely ignoring religion is extremely unscientific. Fact many scientists when researching The Quran converted to Islam. I could relate a multitude of scientific facts to prove my point but I’m sure it would fall on deaf ears so I will leave you to your ignorant opinion. If you want to go round telling people you evolved from a monkey great. Actually I think you probably was descended from monkeys but I and most other people are descended from humans. 🙏🏼

Wait!!! Doesn't Sean Bean die in every movie???

very cool

As you say you’re rusty, And unfortunately you overstate your case fairly early on. Upbringing involves more than just your family, and the human brain has significant growth until our mid 20’s. That’s when our brains are actually fully adult. There’s mountains of evidence to support the inherent plasticity of the brain. We have instincts, true, but so much of what makes us human is our ability to second guess those intuitions. This is how a person 130,000 ago through to the present can, as an individual, adapt to a new environment. We do have instincts but part of what’s lead to the minimizing of evolutionary psychology is that the more we dig into how genes work through expression the more we realize environment is key. I just hi k what I’m getting at on a deeper level is that your distinction you draw is a relic, it’s like saying there’s a difference between a home and a domicile. True enough, we can call open spaces without shelter and concepts like a community “home.” But being charitable the vast majority of the usage of “home” is synonymous with domicile. The fact that they are not the same is only true/useful to make a distinction for in edge cases. So too with “evolutionary psychology vs the social sciences.” Not just our brain, but most mammals and archosaurs and a great many reptiles have way more behavioral complexity and plasticity. But the inputs of nurture to social species, especially considering this includes way more than just parents (we ain’t the only animals with definable culture or other abstract social concepts. We just do it a lot more and way more complexly than other animals), so saying “this behavior evolved because of passed down traits!” is a lot like in one of your other videos where you posited an example of a culture observing self driving cars and their papers saying “we found the thing that makes the car go!” when they remove a cable and non of the self driving cars are able to move

I would so totally watch Built for the Stone Age!

Social Anthropologist here, with a geoscience background. I totally second your statement, that it all has to do with history of thought. Up to around the 1940's the idea of the evolution of thought and behaviour (and thus "culture") was a pretty common idea in social studies, even some decades later it still poked around a bit. But given the polotical history behind the idea the whole topic of psychology got banned in most (not all) branches - out of the fear to support such ideas again. A lot of this can be attributed to a false understanding of evolution - evolving to a certain "high point" (= white westerners) from a certain "low point" (=apes) and survival of the fittest equaling kill or be killed as opposed to adapt in any way that lets you survive.

I actually got interested in the idea that the geology of a place forms the finer thinkings, based on the available ground and food. But I'm also pretty sure that there is something inherently human in all our behaviour. Instincts that have nothing to do with culture per se - people want to avoid unneccessary fights to avoid being killed (what is deemed "unneccessary" is then again largely defined by culture, but still). People want to control any dangers to avoid being killed (with how they manage said dangers like droughts and wild animals is - again - largely based on culture). People want to protect their offspring, if possible (with how they do it is - again - largely based on culture, but in this case it has a very heavy nature emphasis as well, especially if the children are below a certain age). So psychology and biology determine the "what" people do, while culture largely determines the "how". And both sides adapt to the environment to make people more likely to survive. And animals, as well - culture isn't a humaon-only thing.

If a company offered a service where they hook your brain to electrodes that cause intense euphoria for the rest of your life, and they’ll supply your body with sustenance and waste removal, would you do it?

"If the children are sent to France... doesn't bear thinking about."

This is SO IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW

I think the film developing example can just be described with the developing fluid alone. Some developers bring out greater contrast (how stark the difference is between the brightest colours and darkest colours) and some focus more on developing the crystals to be as unnoticeable as is possible. Other factors affect the developer as well, how long it's been exposed to air, how many times it's been used before, how diluted it is with water, how warm or cold it is, how long you develop, the difference of temperature between your developing chemical and your stop chemical (the chemical that stops developing, although water does the job just fine); because that really messes with the look of the image (although not with any of the shapes in the image). All factors that affect the final image you receive.

"The babies sent to France..Umm, doesn't bare thinking about." That's comedic genius.

Um, well, this notion that women are discouraged from pursuing careers in STEM (mechanical engineering) is objectively false. Nonetheless, the women who promote this idea have the upper hand for now and can make life quite difficult...i.e. cancel culture..for dissenters.

Women do not crave low paying careers. They have entered the fields of law, business and medicine and are quite well compensated. They have a natural aptitude in these fields and are drawn to them.

If they are under represented in STEM careers, we can reasonably assume that they are not drawn to them in the same way men are.

Bald patch? You call that a bald patch..
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"this has nothing to do with swords, so i suppose i should put this down"
this is why i love lindybeige

I love you, Lloyd.

Diversity of thought and of any kind in an industry or task leads to better results. It's not that women would be better mechanical engineers then men. It's that having a mix or diversity of men and women in the same project will lead to more solutions, many of which will be better. It's about different perspectives, not about sex specifically.

I think it's very important that you never make presumptions about your audience, and always make a point to explain basic concepts (i.e theory vs hypothesis) with just as much depth as more complicated concepts.

The thing is though that there is nowhere on earth where boys and girls are brought up and treated exactly the same way, not even Sweden. So we can't know what it's like to strip culture away from that. There are certain aspects of Swedish culture that are more egalitarian (according to whatever criteria the study chose to look at) but being slightly more egalitarian than, say, the UK, doesn't mean everyone is treated the exact same.

LINDYBEIGE!!!!! You.are the Man!!!

"i went to university and i was cutting-edge.... once. "
reminds me of
"i went to court and i won... morally."

'This has nothing to do with swords, so I am going to put this down."
😂😂😂🤣🤣😭🤣😭😂😂😂🤣

Sorry man. when Lindy talks about men / women he can help but speech old dull misogyny bullshit.

This video brought back awful memories of triangulation school. Is it bigger or just further away!? The horror!

Are social scientists delusional because of nature or nurture?

Agree with you for the most. Just as for mechanical engineering: Well, in most Eastern European societies the share of women in engineering is much higher than in the West - to the day, actually. The same goes for Sciences in general. This is a legacy of Socialism and it has survived the massive social upheaval of capitalist restauration in the 1990's - unlike a lot of other stuff.

What utter rubbish.

Doesn't bear thinking thinking about🤣

How are you allowed all the weapons? I thought I heard of a guy getting knighted and having a sword made only to have to give it up

Isn't 1000 ten to the third? Making a myriad ten to the fourth?

Criminality and intelligence are also examples of heritable traits. Some groups don't do as well as others in society and the social scientists blame social causes, when in reality a lot of it is heritable and therefore cannot be corrected by social change.

Even Lindy Beige commercials are worth watching!! 😄

Your digressions within digressions are one of the things I love about you, Lloyd :D

A little late. But I do not dance the samba!

What you said about grief reminded me of something I read about how a hit in the male genitals hurts as much as it does is for evolutionary purposes, just to prevent you to break your testicles and with that loose your fertility