Comments on: A Very Sobering Sentence

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:38:06 +0000

Isn’t it just stupid to think anthropology could close off the entire concept that people are different? Is there a better word, if this is true, than academics in these fields are just stupid? Let’s say in a diverse people, some are less winners in capitalism than others. That doesn’t preclude redistribution, assuming you are a horrible liberally biased researcher. Assuming it does is just stupid, and that is being as charitable as possible, right?

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:10:27 +0000

Haidt? He already has. He has turned liberal bias in avademia into a research program…within academia. It is pretty brilliant. That is one reason I don’t really trust it as a change movement, but it is hard to fault him for it.

By: Lord

Lord — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:35:40 +0000

Someone needs an attitude adjustment. Perhaps he should stop looking at problems and start looking for opportunities, stop looking to afix blame and start looking to assign credit, stop dividing and start unifying, stop looking at averages and start looking at variability, stop trying to validate preconceptions and start following the data. This is largely semantics but salesmanship sells.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:01:25 +0000

He started out relatively strong with the Harvard professor breaking into his house and somebody calling the cops on him. Then the Martin shooting. Recently the kid who brought the bomb-looking clock to school.

Nothing about the guy selling cigs getting choked out or the buy shot in the back in Charleston while the black officer looked on while the shooter planted the tazer on the dead body.

By: Massimo

Massimo — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:20:50 +0000

Great answer. I would love to hear you elaborate on which race issues Obama hyped and was wrong on and which more serious issues he avoided. I can guess

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:45:48 +0000

Haidt: “Yes, that’s right. Even much of the gender gap in STEM fields appears to result from differences of enjoyment-–boys and girls are not very different on ability, but they’re hugely different in what they enjoy doing.”

Praise Jesus. Maybe now that a,liberal speaks an obvious common sense maybe now it can be heard. Or, more likely, he’ll just be re-labeled as a conservative so he can be dismissed, as of course we’ve already seen.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:33:40 +0000

He is not immune to the problem he is working on. On almost every race issue Obama chose to hype he was on the wrong side of the facts. He didnt choose to hype the ones that were actually troubling. Don’t we have to assume Obama is just as bad on everything else that we don’t hear him hyping?

Is Cruz (or Trump) worse than that, from their respective orientation? Did Obama result in Cruz and Trump as phenomenae? I think so.

By: Thales

Thales — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:14:06 +0000

Only the Christian heterosexual cismale ciswhite cisabled possess agency.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:23:32 +0000

Education is a confidence game and a racket. This is just a glaring example. If we fixed this, education might be a little better.

Really, this stuff should be largely irrelevant. As Haidt suggests, actual scientists have their hands full designing experiments or chasing down data sets and applying the correct methods (and ex plotting surly grad students, adjuncts, et. al.). The more time you have to spend on narrative, the less you are probably doing science.

By: Massimo

Massimo — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 03:01:07 +0000

Props to Haidt and Kling for posting this. I’m somewhat bewildered that Haidt is so horrified at this militantly truth-distorting and censorship driven social justice yet that’s precisely what 2008 candidate Obama was steeped in and represented. I do understand that a lot of people voted for Obama as a direct opposition to excessive military intervention from W Bush’s campaign. I’d also like to hear what horrifies Haidt about Cruz. On health care, at least, Cruz seems to best represent the free market health care ideas of the right-leaning libertarian economist circle.