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Cheap Signaling

March 22, 2011 Andrew Arensburger

I talked about appropriating the biological concept of costly signaling for general skepticism, and it occurred to me to wonder whether there’s such a thing as cheap signaling. Costly signaling is when the investment required to transmit a message, like “trust me” or “have sex with me” is so high that only the worthy applicant… Continue reading Cheap Signaling

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On the Set with Religious Arguments

January 26, 2011 Andrew Arensburger

(This article was originally posted at Secular Perspectives.) Have you ever watched a movie where some people are stuck in a broom closet or a train compartment, and wondered “Gee, I wonder how they managed to fit the camera operator in there with all those people”? The trick, of course, is that they don’t: there’s… Continue reading On the Set with Religious Arguments

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