Somehow, doing this only strikes me as 'Deny it and the pain'll go away'. It doesn't seem like it respects the facts.
And I strive to know reality, no matter whether it is as great as unicorn farts or as cruddy as world genocide.
An anthropologist does not try to change the objects of their observation or bring in extraneous topics.
It's a little more nuanced than this. My beef is largely with the more average whose combination of illogic and various other mental gymnastics they do makes them do things that it would take actual conscious effort for me to screw up.
Anyone can develop and test hypotheses and then build a library of hypotheses that have been tested not been falsified.
Accordingly, IQ has little to do with the ability to think clearly and logically. People of humble origins and means develop some amazing knowledge and use it in amazing ways.
And on the contrary, smart people just come up with more imaginative ways to fool themselves and others.
