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(1) Your discussion of induction versus deduction is irrelevant. The issue at hand is causality and there is no implicit or explicit claim in the admins post which causality is anything but derived inductively. The entire project of experiment design and inferential statistics is to establish causality with a high degree of confidence. The whole edifice of social and biomedical science rests on experimental designs and statistical methods that establish causality with a predefined level of confidence. For this reason your statement regarding the impossibility of proof via inductive methods is irrelevant. No one is demanding proof. In experimental psychology p < .05 so the PUA industry is obliged to present evidence with the same level of confidence as that found in the results of experimental psychology.
(2) Occam's Razor is not a rule, it is a heuristic, a “rule of thumb”. It is not inviolable. All it suggests is that when faced with two competing explanations the safest choice is that which is most ontologically economical. There are some notable instances in the history of science which Occam’s Razor has failed to yield the truth. A recent example is the discovery that it is Helicobacter pylori and not hydrochloric acid that causes stomach ulcers. In any event, Occam’s Razor doesn’t help you because the competing explanation of attraction that you are positing is invalidated by criteria other than ontological economy. There is neuroscientific, social psychological and even sociological evidence that attraction is not something that can be created and that humans mate assortatively.
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