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The problems grandparent describes are real. As a scientist, if you find "Black people good, white people bad" --> publication + promotion You find "White peo
by NoImmatureAdHom 3y ago
The problems grandparent describes are real.
As a scientist, if you find "Black people good, white people bad" --> publication + promotion
You find "White people good, black people bad" --> you lose your job
Completely orthogonal to the morality of it, it creates something called publication bias (or the file drawer problem) in the social sciences. It's a huge issue.
- Bran_son 3y agoTo back up the parents claim: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. - https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bias-killing-social-science https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi... And of course, ignore Asians at all costs. Or if the study is about overrepresentation, invent a new, "Asian + white" category, and hide disaggregated numbers.
- happytoexplain 3y ago>"Black people good, white people bad" --> publication + promotion >"White people good, black people bad" --> you lose your job It is totally believable that the bias problem you're referring to exists, but your description is provocative, dramatized, oversimplified, and carries a smug tone, and I wish it wasn't any of those things.
- NoImmatureAdHom 3y agoYou know, you're right. I think when you live it every day it gets exhausting.