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Did you click through to glance through the paper linked? I was hoping the author would posit a causal model, adjust for a few different factors, and have somet

by DAGdug 2y ago

Did you click through to glance through the paper linked? I was hoping the author would posit a causal model, adjust for a few different factors, and have something robust. Nope, nothing - just a wall of text even quoting Derrida. Empiricism is slowly dying, in large part due to truth seeking becoming subservient to confirmation bias.

defrost 2y ago
> Did you click through to glance through the paper linked? Yes. > I was hoping the author would posit a causal model, adjust for a few different factors, and have something robust. They did to a degree. > Nope, nothing Perhaps you might click through and read again. > just a wall of text A "wall of text" is something, this one was broken up with paragraphs and had a number of observations regarding systems in two countries and quotes from people in several countries. > even quoting Derrida. Would you be kind enough to quote the "quote", Ctrl-F Derrida returns zilch, and expand on why that particular quote offends you? > Empiricism is slowly dying, in large part due to truth seeking becoming subservient to confirmation bias. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana
- DAGdug 2y ago
  > They did to a degree Where? I’m fairly facile with causal inference; this is the crudest observational “study” without even qualitative heuristics to make the comparisons apples-to-apples. > and expand on why that particular quote offends you? Generic low tolerance for high V, low M academics: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-v-low-m.html?m=1 https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-v-low-m.html?m=1 This is the paper he links to, where you can find references to Derrida: https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/Phronimon/article/view/13232/7258 https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/Phronimon/article... Anyway, if this is the kind of nonsense that convinces you, I don’t intent to continue this discussion. We have very different notions of what qualifies as evidence.

by DAGdug 2y ago

defrost 2y ago

> Did you click through to glance through the paper linked? Yes. > I was hoping the author would posit a causal model, adjust for a few different factors, and have something robust. They did to a degree. > Nope, nothing Perhaps you might click through and read again. > just a wall of text A "wall of text" is something, this one was broken up with paragraphs and had a number of observations regarding systems in two countries and quotes from people in several countries. > even quoting Derrida. Would you be kind enough to quote the "quote", Ctrl-F Derrida returns zilch, and expand on why that particular quote offends you? > Empiricism is slowly dying, in large part due to truth seeking becoming subservient to confirmation bias. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana

DAGdug 2y ago
> They did to a degree Where? I’m fairly facile with causal inference; this is the crudest observational “study” without even qualitative heuristics to make the comparisons apples-to-apples. > and expand on why that particular quote offends you? Generic low tolerance for high V, low M academics: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-v-low-m.html?m=1 https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-v-low-m.html?m=1 This is the paper he links to, where you can find references to Derrida: https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/Phronimon/article/view/13232/7258 https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/Phronimon/article... Anyway, if this is the kind of nonsense that convinces you, I don’t intent to continue this discussion. We have very different notions of what qualifies as evidence.