Hi everybody, this is Gatsad for the sad truth. I'm going to give you a little preview of a topic that I'll be covering in my forthcoming book Suisadal Empathy, which I hope that you will all go out and pre-order once it's ready for pre-order.

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In any case, today I want to talk about something that I call this singular exemplar bias.

This is something that I first discussed in the context of my work in evolutionary psychology

where I was trying to explain what are some of the cognitive and emotional obstacles

that cause people to always try to offer some

rebuttal to evolutionary psychology. So one of which is the following. If I were to say

homo sapiens are a sexually dimorphic species whereby males in that species are on average bigger than females.

Many species are not sexually dimorphic in terms of their size.

Human beings are.

That statement is absolutely a veridical fact, notwithstanding the fact that your aunt Mary is bigger than your

uncle Roscoe. So the fact that you've identified a singular exemplar that seems to go contrary

to the statement that is true at the population level does not falsify

how veritable the statement is at the population level.

Right?

That's why we have statistical distributions that overlap.

On average, men are taller than women, even though most female players in the WNBA are taller than many men,

right?

One does not falsify the other.

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