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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:Is Evolutionary Psychology bullshit, or is it real science?
gpt
In theory, it's perfectly reasonable.  But in practice it's often pretty badly done.  People tend to draw conclusions based on a survey of some western college students and their own preconceptions, then make up some elaborate untestable speculation about it.  So...it depends, mostly it depends on how rigorous the research is and whether people generalize their conclusions too far.  

I think the important thing to remember is that just because you can make a plausible sounding story about something, doesn't mean that story is true.  And also that you can't just survey modern western people and be sure that what they do is relevant to humanity as a whole across the broad sweep of time. And finally, humans are really freaking complicated, so understanding their behavior is difficult. Don't put too much faith in EP pronouncements that neglect to consider all these things.

Source: working on PhD in animal behavior, though not related to humans in any way.