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In which a new set of overconfident, simplistic solutions harshly criticize the previous set of overconfident, simplistic solutions. If only we had known what w
by menacingly 9y ago
In which a new set of overconfident, simplistic solutions harshly criticize the previous set of overconfident, simplistic solutions. If only we had known what we were doing when we unleashed the dark force of self esteem we could have stopped bullying!
I'm sure being patient and understanding with yourself (and with everyone else) is an approach to life that has a lot of benefits, but these articles are nothing more than pornography for our narcissistic idea that we have this huge power to shape who our kids are by simply embracing a new outlook from a paperback or using new words.
- pzone 9y agoI'm always dismayed at how easy it is to make an armchair dismissal of research in social sciences.
- cryoshon 9y agoif the social sciences held themselves to the standard of the hard sciences this problem couldn't exist
- accountyaccount 9y agoI feel like if social sciences held themselves to that standard we'd end up with eugenics? There's some inherit benefit to recognizing that social sciences aren't strictly 'hard-logic' sciences.
- menacingly 9y agoand I feel like worrying about the social consequences of the hard logic you uncover while studying social issues is a fundamentally flawed reasoning
- menacingly 9y agoIt's probably because they can use the in-group primitives of the field to construct internally-consistent conclusions that are obviously false or silly to both casual observers and people who try to reproduce them systematically