Marine biology is perhaps the most feminized field in all of science because, you know, girls like dolphins.
Perhaps? Is this your own guess, or do you have any data to back it up?
And as expected, the real problem with aggressive peer review is the possibility that it might discredit the whole field - because yes, the pirates are petty enough to sink the ship.
If psychology is any guide, a replication crisis doesn't prevent the "scientists" from continuing on their merry way and making all sorts of assertions not backed up by any facts.
He's not completely wrong. Marine Bio departments in universities will have a larger percentage of girls in the classes than other STEM fields from what I've seen as well. What he's ignoring though is that this is one of those fields where there are actually pretty few new jobs each year. He's extrapolating what happens in universities that are happy to take your cash for useless degrees and extrapolating that it affects who does the actual science which is where the argument falls apart.
The original claim was that 'marine science' is dominated by women more than any other field of science. This only shows that, like biology in general, women are in the majority here.
He specifically made the claim about 'marine biology', and connected it to a cause which sounded quite absurd, dolphins. If other parts of biology are just as or even more female than marine biology, then the claim that marine biology is less rigorous because it's predominantly female is also shown to be false.
I asked for some evidence, which he was completely incapable of providing.
Perhaps? Is this your own guess, or do you have any data to back it up?
If psychology is any guide, a replication crisis doesn't prevent the "scientists" from continuing on their merry way and making all sorts of assertions not backed up by any facts.
So... it's based on nothing at all. Just as I thought.
Anecdote is not data, and it most certainly is not 'empiricism'.
He's not completely wrong. Marine Bio departments in universities will have a larger percentage of girls in the classes than other STEM fields from what I've seen as well. What he's ignoring though is that this is one of those fields where there are actually pretty few new jobs each year. He's extrapolating what happens in universities that are happy to take your cash for useless degrees and extrapolating that it affects who does the actual science which is where the argument falls apart.
https://i.imgur.com/LJm04bz.png
from:
https://datausa.io/profile/cip/marine-biology-biological-oceonography#demographics
dunno anything about the source but found it pretty easily.
there's also some feminist group of 'women in ocean science' that says they're raped in the workplace day in day out, but whaddaya gonna expect...
The original claim was that 'marine science' is dominated by women more than any other field of science. This only shows that, like biology in general, women are in the majority here.
He specifically made the claim about 'marine biology', and connected it to a cause which sounded quite absurd, dolphins. If other parts of biology are just as or even more female than marine biology, then the claim that marine biology is less rigorous because it's predominantly female is also shown to be false.
I asked for some evidence, which he was completely incapable of providing.
Yeah I would say social sciences, especially grievance studies are by far the most cucked.