# Concerns II

Originally published: 2016-09-29
Canonical URL: /2016/Sep/concerns-ii/

[(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/)

"I'm concerned about the [socially-undesirable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias) implications of the correlations documented in these published studies, which seem consistent with my own observations and personal experience."

_(studying them)_ "Hey! These correlation coefficients are _not equal to one_! In fact, all of them are _substantially less than one_! How _dare_ you try to construct predictive models about how the world works, when _you yourself admit_ that your model won't assign literally all of its probability mass to the exact outcome?!"

_(in despair, as if realizing that the [nature of reasoning as an adaptation for arguing with conspecifics in imperfectly-deceptive social organisms](https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/theargumentativetheoryofreasoning) implies that no one can ever have a serious, grown-up conversation about anything important)_ "Just kill meeeeeeeeeee"