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I just want to say this was one of the most enjoyable articles I have read in a long time. It's informative, respectful to critics, and exudes a "confident but
by kloch 3y ago
I just want to say this was one of the most enjoyable articles I have read in a long time. It's informative, respectful to critics, and exudes a "confident but restrained" tone that is so rare in public discourse these days.
- ycombinete 3y agoHis books The Righteous Mind, and Happiness Hypothesis are similarly well written. He narrates the former himself in the Audible version.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoWe must have read different articles. What I read amount to special pleading where the author confuses scientific and judicial epistemology, doesn't do a literature review, and comes cross as hopelessly naive.
- seattle_spring 3y agoJonathan Haidt is one of those psychology "gurus" like Jordan Peterson. You're right to read his stuff with an enormous amount of skepticism.
- joenot443 3y agoIt sounds like you just connected two people you personally disagree with who are otherwise really nothing alike. Why don't you expand?
- revelio 3y agoYeah it needs a proper takedown. Haidt is respectful but his arguments are pseudo-scientific.
- remarkEon 3y ago>So this is a good academic debate between well-intentioned participants. It is being carried out in a cordial way, in public, in long-form essays rather than on Twitter. The question for readers — and particularly parents, school administrators, and legislators — is which side you should listen to as you think about what policies to adopt or change. I've been reading all the essays, and the meta-commentary is that the reason the debate reads the way it does is that it's ... not on social media.