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

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

Originally published at The Conversation