>Academia is where we get much of the evidence that socially-constructed groups (based on religion, gender, race, etc.). Social Studies in general are frequent

>Academia is where we get much of the evidence that socially-constructed groups (based on religion, gender, race, etc.). Social Studies in general are frequently non-rigorous, sloppy and a mess. The academic areas where those ideas are promulgated are even more so. For example, I have yet to see any evidence, for example, that a girl who plays with dolls as a child is being socially conditioned away from STEM fields as an adult ... a claim that is repeated all the time and stated as simply a fact. At this point, given how sloppy those academic areas are, I can only be skeptical of the crap they promulgate.