While no one took the Liberal Arts seriously anyway -- this sort of bad research started in those departments first. I don't know when we stopped controlling for personal biases (if we ever did) but it's rampant across academia.
The fat girl studying fat people, the brown dude studying how people hate brown people -- etc. People are encouraged to research what is personal to them and so they never break down their biases.
That on top of the "diversification" of academia which led to shit researchers and shit scientists getting pushed through because of DiVeRsiTy -- and you also have a large cohort of people with no idea of scientific rigor or integrity, because it's never been demanded of them.
Worse- they aren't just diversifying the people, but also the scientific method because literal voodoo witchcraft needs to be considered just as "valid" a system for gaining understanding of observed phenomena.
Literal voodoo witchcraft needs to be considered just as "valid" a system for gaining understanding of observed phenomena.
Literal voodoo witchcraft needs to be considered just as "valid" because actual scientific inquiry shows all of their hypotheses about economics, psychology, sociology, etc to be completely worthless.
True story from my "Blue pill" days as a Sociology graduate student:
Grad Student wants to prove that men not doing housework leads to frustrated women and bad sex lives. Does a regression analysis on some big data set (these people NEVER collect or collate their own data) -- finds out that people in traditional marriages with a traditional division of labor are the happiest. Complete failure to reject the null hypothesis.
The ensuing 10 minute presentation on how these women must have internalized misogyny made my eyes roll out of my head -- and I haven't even begun to realize how stupid these people were yet.
"I'm wrong, therefore I must be right in a different, impossible to disprove way" is the thinking behind essentially everything wrong with current year politics.
Hypothesis: Whitey bad
Test: Whitey kills or harms non-whitey disproportionately?
Result: No
Conclusion: Whitey harms non-whitey in invisible way that cannot be measured, thus whitey bad
Hypothesis: Capitalism bad
Test: Non-capitalist societies more successful?
Result: No
Conclusion: Capitalism made all non-capitalist societies fail, somehow, thus capitalism bad
Hypothesis: Covid kills healthy people
Test: Covid kills healthy people?
Result: No
Conclusion: "Long covid" causes every symptom imaginable and cannot be tested for, thus covid kills healthy people
Hypothesis: LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ folx are in danger!
Test: Folx more likely to be victim of violent crime?
Result: No, especially after controlling for behavior
Conclusion: Everything bad that happens to a non-straight person is a result of bullying, thus folx are in danger
Find me a single leftist viewpoint that doesn't follow this exact pattern. I'd be very impressed if you could find one.
Pretty much. Science is just the least biased way to interpret data and formulate conclusions based on those findings, but because the predominantly white west codified it, it's now an aspect of "huwaite colonialism".
They don't really respect voodoo or whatever, they're just grasping at straws for anything they can use to chip away at the foundations of society- just like when Twitter spent a week or so trying to argue that 2+2 =/= 4.
While no one took the Liberal Arts seriously anyway -- this sort of bad research started in those departments first. I don't know when we stopped controlling for personal biases (if we ever did) but it's rampant across academia.
The fat girl studying fat people, the brown dude studying how people hate brown people -- etc. People are encouraged to research what is personal to them and so they never break down their biases.
That on top of the "diversification" of academia which led to shit researchers and shit scientists getting pushed through because of DiVeRsiTy -- and you also have a large cohort of people with no idea of scientific rigor or integrity, because it's never been demanded of them.
Worse- they aren't just diversifying the people, but also the scientific method because literal voodoo witchcraft needs to be considered just as "valid" a system for gaining understanding of observed phenomena.
Close.
Literal voodoo witchcraft needs to be considered just as "valid" because actual scientific inquiry shows all of their hypotheses about economics, psychology, sociology, etc to be completely worthless.
True story from my "Blue pill" days as a Sociology graduate student:
Grad Student wants to prove that men not doing housework leads to frustrated women and bad sex lives. Does a regression analysis on some big data set (these people NEVER collect or collate their own data) -- finds out that people in traditional marriages with a traditional division of labor are the happiest. Complete failure to reject the null hypothesis.
The ensuing 10 minute presentation on how these women must have internalized misogyny made my eyes roll out of my head -- and I haven't even begun to realize how stupid these people were yet.
I have more stories, too.
"I'm wrong, therefore I must be right in a different, impossible to disprove way" is the thinking behind essentially everything wrong with current year politics.
Hypothesis: Whitey bad
Test: Whitey kills or harms non-whitey disproportionately?
Result: No
Conclusion: Whitey harms non-whitey in invisible way that cannot be measured, thus whitey bad
Hypothesis: Capitalism bad
Test: Non-capitalist societies more successful?
Result: No
Conclusion: Capitalism made all non-capitalist societies fail, somehow, thus capitalism bad
Hypothesis: Covid kills healthy people
Test: Covid kills healthy people?
Result: No
Conclusion: "Long covid" causes every symptom imaginable and cannot be tested for, thus covid kills healthy people
Hypothesis: LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ folx are in danger!
Test: Folx more likely to be victim of violent crime?
Result: No, especially after controlling for behavior
Conclusion: Everything bad that happens to a non-straight person is a result of bullying, thus folx are in danger
Find me a single leftist viewpoint that doesn't follow this exact pattern. I'd be very impressed if you could find one.
I got another one for your list from my Grad School days - using a buzz word you probably don't hear that often anymore:
Hypothesis: Poor black people live in food deserts and are unhealthy because of institutionalized racism
Test: Poor blacks unable to access fresh vegetables/food in a cost-effective way?
Result: No, it turns out even in rural Southern Georgia, everyone has reasonable access to fresh food.
Conclusion: Black people make bad choices because of whitey.
Pretty much. Science is just the least biased way to interpret data and formulate conclusions based on those findings, but because the predominantly white west codified it, it's now an aspect of "huwaite colonialism".
They don't really respect voodoo or whatever, they're just grasping at straws for anything they can use to chip away at the foundations of society- just like when Twitter spent a week or so trying to argue that 2+2 =/= 4.