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#608 Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games; Game Theory and Irrational Human Behavior

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Why the Jews Wear Head Covers?

If an anthropologist were to listen to these kinds of stories, they would be like, well, you know, maybe the anthropologist is an atheist, and anthrobost as well. I don't think it's really dare to remind them about god. So they might say, let me look at the details of thi story and see if i can piece together some other explanation. That's an etic explanation. It's from outside the culture. And that seems to me like maybe it's an explanation for why their wearing head cuvers is to distinguish themselves from other groups. Maybe it has some signalling of your own internal a belief system and how strong it isa value as well

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