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"the biggest benefit of a paid subscription is that you [help]...resist the extremist turn of academia and maintain islands of integrity in a sea of academic political corruption." How? I've dedicated the $ to projects, not my pockets. unsafescience.substack.com/p/paid-subscri…

It is indeed their argument -- one for which they rarely present evidence and for which they routinely present counter-evidence unintentionally (e.g., by massively admitting Black applicants to college with weaker test scores who then disproportionately drop out -- see "mismatch"). Or hiring/tenuring women in academic fields with weaker records than men. Peer reviewed receipts available on request.

This is a very old debate, so it's odd that anti-DEIers still seem to have no understanding of what they're actually arguing against.

I regularly see facile takes like this that proponents of DEI are somehow forbidden from pointing to DEI success stories but the typical pro-DEI argument (either for race or for rural county) is that it identifies applicants who are equally capable but unfairly overlooked.

The rejection of use of GREs, which puts actual knowledge on an even playing field, by many grad programs exacerbates biases favoring women.

Revenge of the sane. Or at least, to paraphrase Orwell, of the intellectuals who reject ideas that are so stupid only (some) intellectuals believe them. Or, to paraphrase @RichardHanania and @razibkhan, the "smart stupids."

@yzilber @FlowTap1 @phl43 Interesting. I did not do a study, but did do a simple comparison a few weeks ago. Many more views this way, which is why I stuck with it. But its hard to know what to make of that, kinda more anecdote.

@PsychRabble @FlowTap1 They say links are no longer demoted. And @phl43 did an X mini study secondly showing this is true

New Guest Post by @FlowTap1. Link in reply. "...free speech and viewpoint diversity should not be curtailed during a medical crisis. Challenging popular elite opinion is just as important, if not more so, when society faces an unexpected danger, such as a deadly “novel” virus."

"Why did we accept the widespread, ruthless, and unsupported suppression of liberties?" unsafescience.substack.com/p/free-speech-…

New post. Link in reply. "The strongest version of the administration’s case is not “social science is worthless,” but that NSF in particular drifted into funding work whose theoretical frameworks and PI activism were substantively continuous with each other, that this drift damaged broader public trust in science, and that resetting the directorate structure is one response."

Wonderful guest post by Danit Finkelstein on @PsychRabble's Unsafe Science, diving into the administration's proposed science budget. Especially relevant for social psychologists. "FY27 Science Budget: A Fuller Picture of Implications for Social Psychology and Beyond" 🔗 Substack Link: @danitfinkelstein/note/p-197383517?r=1rleq3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@danitfinkelst…

unsafescience.substack.com/p/fy27-science… "The response has also clearly produced overreach. The keyword screen used for the Cruz database swept in research on the dusky-capped flycatcher (a bird, flagged because “diversification” appears in evolutionary biology), aerospace manufacturing grants (flagged for mentioning the percentage of Hispanic students), solar eclipse research, a grant to teach Hebrew at UMass (flagged in a database commissioned by an avowedly pro-Israel senator), and a postdoc on “How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them”, basic cognitive science on belief revision, terminated as “misinformation research.” Both things are true: the strongest examples are genuinely damning, and the implementation has been blunt enough to catch obviously unrelated work."

@anecdotal Social psychologist here. I wish you were wrong. Some of us have worked long and hard to make it wrong. And yet it goes way beyond failed replications. unsafescience.substack.com/p/75-of-psycho…

I did, I said this.

@CarlosEAlvare17 @Merlin67684223 @ashleytrubin Oh, well, everyone who is anyone can find lots of articles arguing the scientific method is racist. Here's a good example: unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-scientif…

@Merlin67684223 @ashleytrubin Anonymous account dropping repeated strong statements against @ashleytrubin — a public academic reformer with a real reputation on prisons and social science. Your important contributions will be carefully filed, and I’m sure others will slide into your DMs for more wisdom.

It's still bonkers to me that insisting on methodological and theoretical rigor in academic research is treated as "conservative," a "fringe" view, or "heterodox."

@robsica In other news, our critique of microaggressions was recently accepted for publication. The draft version at Unsafe Science is pretty close to what was accepted.

🤔"Lilienfeld’s unscientific opposition to microaggressions"

@KiteBird3 @SwipeWright This is why the Gods, or, rather, Enlightenment intellectuals like Francis Bacon, created experimental methods (so personal biases can be irrelevant to empirical findings). P.S. Lots of the authors of these studies are women. unsafescience.substack.com/p/more-evidenc…

@SwipeWright The bias against women in STEM is the very much like the bias against women driving UBER. You never had a female body, so you are blissfully unaware. And when you go looking, you sample the wrong data so you get the wrong conclusion.

A zombie belief I frequently encounter in woke papers is that there's a tenure-track hiring bias against women in STEM. A new paper combining all research on faculty ratings for identical CVs for men vs. women show that not only is this belief false, the opposite is true.

@LGibbsFamilyDoc @SwipeWright At your service. Pretty similar over that time. unsafescience.substack.com/p/more-evidenc…

@SwipeWright Figure cited was from data from 10 yrs ago. Wonder if things are similar or more profound now!?

@the_apollonic saved for potential future use...

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The Creed of Marxism: "We, the Oxymoronic Thinkers, hold that all spontaneous depth shall be scheduled quarterly, all authentic expression shall be formatted per guidelines, and all genuine insight shall be pre-approved by the Subcommittee on Genuine Insight."

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What if what we’ve been taught about stereotypes, bias and hidden prejudice is not just exaggerated — but wrong? Lee Jussim (@psychrabble) has spent decades challenging social psychology from within. New episode of Rak höger: enrakhoger.se/p/lee-jussim-a…

This is totally my favorite pod/interview since Peterson. Ivar did such a good job. Rollicking good time, laughed more on a pod than ... ever. Topics in chronological order: Stereotype accuracy Social scientists literally making stuff up and calling it science. Implicit bias and its many (many many) limitations, including a new paper (not mine) highlighting those limitations. How U.S. culture, driven in part by social science, has lost its "can-do, American know-how!" sensibility. And how dissident academics tried to warn academia and the wider culture that academia's relentless politicization practically invited the Trumpian Backlash.

@JoelWBerry @CathyYoung63 Not counting the 1944 movie, from which "gaslighting" derives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_…

“The term ‘gaslighting’ to describe psychological abuse and manipulation came into use 60 years ago which means no one ever gaslit anyone before then.” “The word ‘Trinity’ didn’t exist until around 200AD which means the Trinity didn’t exist before then.” I’m not sure if Auron is stupid, thinks you’re stupid, or if he’s actually fallen so far that he’s adopted the Leftist postmodern view of language. Words don’t create reality, they convey reality. The principles of America being founded on a “Covenant” or a “Creed” or the “Logos” is all over the writings of great Americans going back 250 years to the founders. It was borrowed from the Bible and the covenantal nation of Israel. It wasn’t invented by progressives in the 60s. Again, I struggle to discern whether these people are stupid or sinister.

@BekahKnowsBS @triggerpod That post was a draft of a paper submitted for pub in a peer reviewed journal. It is now accepted (not yet pubbed).

@triggerpod @PsychRabble has many good pieces highlighting the many issues with microaggressions. Here’s just one: unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-dubious-…

"Microaggressions… don’t require evidence because it’s subconscious." Warren Smith explains how a student who “doesn’t show up to class” and “doesn’t do any assignments” suddenly couldn’t be held accountable after accusations of racism. “Why is it that one of the most progressive left-wing schools in the country is suddenly racist or white supremacist? It just doesn’t make any sense.” Watch this clip.