Both these groups ignore basic principles of rational thinking:
you have to consider also other reasons that could cause a particular outcome. You cannot assume something works before excluding other possible explanations. That’s how scientific studies are carried out – contrary to PUA “field testing”. Unless you tell me that some PUAs for instance measured the hormones of the players and the chicks they have managed to pick up – scientist like Helen Fisher did that.
Or at least some other procedures that would exclude other factors such as:
analyzing the success rate (not just one pick-up!) of two groups of guys during a longer period of time, that’s what I suggest in section “A Job For the MythBusters”
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Piotr says:
November 19, 2011 at 9:15 am
You are presenting a false dichotomy, your two options don’t exhaust the field of possibility. PUAs believe they have a profound insight into human psychology or even the supernatural (recall that Ross Jeffries has a course on using magick (i.e. spells, incantations, sigils, rituals) to get laid. Each PUA guru has their own spin to make their brand unique. For example, Eben Pagan’s is psuedoscience in the form of a misreading of evolutionary psychology. Ross Jeffries is NLP and magick. Mystery’s is a hodge-podge. Stephan’s is the pretence of New Age sensitivity. It is anything but actual psychological understanding. These guys know that they must present a unique value proposition. If it were textbook psychology they wouldn’t be able to charge their exhorbitant fees.
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