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by tomlock 8y ago
Empirical data in individual studies are supposed to have statistical controls that mitigate incorrect conclusions, that's why p values are even a thing. To claim that on the one hand individual papers can be wrong, but the additive n
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by tomlock 8y ago
I guess I'm not understanding how you can think that a paper that makes a claim about the real world, but doesn't apply to the real world, could be characterised as anything but nonsensical.
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by tomlock 8y ago
So, you feel like when someone says all fields are fallible and that you should examine their edification critically, that they are simultaneously making the claim that all fields are equivalent? Do you feel you are fallible in your identif
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by tomlock 8y ago
So, is it fair for me to say that your criticism of "grievance studies", a criticism of its unscientific and fallible nature, is anecdotal?
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by tomlock 8y ago
All of them. Every field is fallible, phrenology was once just science. Why would you think something like that couldn't happen again?
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by tomlock 8y ago
These disciplines aren't built on the edifice that you imagine they are. What you're doing, in examining the edification of certain disciplines, is quite postmodern. I encourage you to extend that examination to all fields.
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by tomlock 8y ago
Could you reference some texts from within gender studies that you feel are both representative of the field, and which outline the negative aspects of the epistemology of gender studies that you are perceiving?
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by tomlock 8y ago
It's entirely possible to get a nonsense paper into an economics journal, even when not intentionally trying to expose the discipline as "nonsense". I'm not sure what you're not understanding here.
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by tomlock 8y ago
> and the "grievance scholars" are slowly convincing the rest of academia that real scholarship consists not of neutral methods and honest argument, but agreeing with the grievance scholars in all things, and finding ways to in
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by tomlock 8y ago
> Is that so? So, you'd have no problem getting a nonsense paper accepted into a math, computer science, physics or even economics journal? I would be extremely surprised if you could pass of work of such low quality in journals of
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by tomlock 8y ago
This doesn't address my comment.
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by tomlock 8y ago
Well, you said many on the left leap to outrage, so I assumed you meant that universally, rather than as a subset of left wing people, which you assume are accurately represented by what gets amplified online.
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by tomlock 8y ago
So my assumption then since you've said "many on the left" fly to outrage too easily, is that you don't know many people in real life who are on the left. Is that accurate?
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by tomlock 8y ago
Have you personally, in real life, encountered many people who were "outraged" by you using he/she?
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by tomlock 8y ago
Does anyone else find it weird how so many people can think Linus is utterly brilliant and thoughtful, can agree with him on almost everything he's done and said up to this point, but fall back on the belief that he's been conspir
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by tomlock 8y ago
I'm surprised people didn't know this... this has been happening for at least 4 years through custom audiences. An advertiser can upload a list of mobile numbers or email addresses to target people.
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by tomlock 8y ago
I dunno, maybe there's a "non-SJW" version of that term that might be more suitable to use in this context? Considering we're all so passionate about using those versions :)
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by tomlock 8y ago
Did you know the term "red-pilled" comes from a movie written by two trans women? Really makes you think.
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by tomlock 8y ago
> Not a corporate-approved kangaroo court. Is this really what happened? To me it appeared like a bunch of Linus's close friends told him he was acting like a jerk, and he agreed. Building this into some kind of global movement ou
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by tomlock 8y ago
> Governance-by-online-mob raises all sorts of questions, such as how many members does such a mob need to contain before it must be obeyed? What qualifications are required to wield such awesome power? How does the mob decide which opin
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by tomlock 8y ago
The author uses a lot of soft terms to delineate between "manners" and "political correctness", but never makes a convincing argument about how to identify when something falls in either camp. You can be guaranteed that
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by tomlock 8y ago
And I never said you were talking about government intervention on social media platforms. >And after that "massive amount of thought" there was no legal restriction put on companies that "deplatform" users like Alex
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by tomlock 8y ago
I asked for a visible far-left figure that you thought ought to be banned, and I'm saying you haven't found an equivalent to Alex Jones. I am not endorsing what she said, I simply don't care about it. I'm white. At lea
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by tomlock 8y ago
>apparently you were not Apparently a lot of people weren't because she still has a job at the New York Times. Clearly your belief that humans should be upset isn't reflected in society or reality. Your view that you'd be
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by tomlock 8y ago
They clearly aren't equivalent. What specific people were harmed by Jeong's speech? Were you specifically upset by Jeong's speech? Yes? Ok, now imagine your child has been shot and then someone says you're a liar, and th
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by tomlock 8y ago
Because free speech legislation focuses almost entirely on government intervention. Which is a point I made immediately after you condescended to me about America's legal system.
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But their situations aren't equivalent.
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by tomlock 8y ago
But both Jeong and Jones are currently not banned, so I'm not sure why you think saying "what about how Jeong isn't banned" is anything but whataboutism.
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by tomlock 8y ago
It could be that generally whataboutism is something people don't like, rather than some indication of the "toxicity" of this website.
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by tomlock 8y ago
Incorrect. You're just having difficulty understanding that the legal precedent surrounding free speech is not applicable to this situation.

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