Dr. Jared Diamond - Natural Experiments of History

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  • This lecture was recorded on February 28, 2010 as part of the Distinguished Science Lecture Series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society in California (1992-2015).
    Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can’t be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods of observing, describing, and explaining the world. Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel and the bestselling work in environmental history Collapse, here reveals for the first time his methodology in the applied use of natural experiments and the comparative method. In this lecture based on his new edited volume, Natural Experiments of History, Diamond presents eight comparative studies drawn from history, archaeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging from a non-quantitative narrative style to quantitative statistical analyses. The studies range from a simple two-way comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, to comparisons of 81 Pacific islands and 233 areas of India. The societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past societies.
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ความคิดเห็น • 9

  • @johnroberts2012
    @johnroberts2012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are the best... am glad to have come across you

    • @johnwatkins2030
      @johnwatkins2030 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always interesting

  • @irvhh143
    @irvhh143 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Darwin's book Voyage of the Beagle cites the example of French and English Canada as proof of the 'Special energy of the British.'

  • @larryparis925
    @larryparis925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    With all due respect to Diamond, his approach to applying scientific methods to understanding human sociocultural evolution is not unique, and others long preceded him. Anthropologists Julian Steward and Leslie White did pioneering work in the early-to-mid 20th Century, and they were followed by a number of dedicated anthropologists and archaeologists analyzing long-term adaptations to local ecologies, finding relevant patterns that linked together food procurement, organizational complexity and behavior, religion, residence patterns, and kinship structure. Diamond may get the credit, but he didn't do the pioneering work.

  • @tlotlegomolelekwa4463
    @tlotlegomolelekwa4463 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1970??

  • @rayz0101
    @rayz0101 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This may be recorded in 2010, but it feels like I stepped in a portal to 1980s, the aspect ratio the low quality video, the bright rhodes scholar attire.

  • @멸문멸공-b4c
    @멸문멸공-b4c 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If someone wrote a book ‘why is eating a fun?’, no one would buy it.
    Diamond’s book ‘why is sex a fun’ is such a book.