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"Master's student in political science starts witch hunt (for the lack of a better term) on a subject he is not an expert on and eventually gets professor fired
by prottog 4y ago
"Master's student in political science starts witch hunt (for the lack of a better term) on a subject he is not an expert on and eventually gets professor fired for making university look bad" seems to be a good summary of this story. There's remarkably little on what exactly makes the professor's studies pseudoscientific.
- random314 4y agoExcept that the business professor was using statistically unsound correlational methods to publicize false claims of race causing changes in IQ. Read this well cited paper for methodology problems on IQ studies. " Re- search designs that do not involve total experimental control by the investigator (organisms being bred for specific experimental reasons—inbred strains, partic- ipants being fully randomized to treatments, etc.) are always problematic in that alternative explanations of a finding are invariably possible. This is certainly the case with human twin and adoption studies." [1] http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Genetic-and-environmental-influences-on-human-psychological-differences.pdf http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Genetic-and-e...