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In a day and age of such magnificent progress in knowledge and science, I'm flabbergasted about how much time we spend pouring over anecdotes about the idiosync

• philipov 9y ago
  It is because the distribution of that magnificent progress is so unevenly distributed. The size of the inequality gap inversely correlates with the amount of freedom and social mobility available, even if the system has risen on average. We should be looking at median progress or other robust indicators rather than simple averages (which are greatly affected by the presence of outliers and long-tailed distributions)
• wcummings 9y ago
  You're flabbergasted that we invest time in social sciences at a time when we're making great progress in science? Can't say that's very surprising to me.
  • kolbe 9y ago
    Social Science is what Gary Becker did. It's an insult to real science to put anecdotal obsessions over micoragressions in the same category as Becker's work. And no, it's not flabbergasting that you care. It's flabbergasting that a highly educated place like hacker news, in aggregate, might care enough.