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.
Everyone has biases, it's human nature. but at least when it's white males running the show you'll have less of it. Like with crime, all groups have crime, some less so. When you have White males running things they're, on average, more likely to care about integrity and the like, not always, just in comparison to most other groups. That's part of why the West has been so successful, such traits. Diversifying definitely messed that up, not to mention having too low IQs, or being as hardworking, that leads to poorer results too. And it's just stats in general, they can be manipulated very easily if the person is willing and frames it in a positive or negative light.
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.
Everyone has biases, it's human nature. but at least when it's white males running the show you'll have less of it. Like with crime, all groups have crime, some less so. When you have White males running things they're, on average, more likely to care about integrity and the like, not always, just in comparison to most other groups. That's part of why the West has been so successful, such traits. Diversifying definitely messed that up, not to mention having too low IQs, or being as hardworking, that leads to poorer results too. And it's just stats in general, they can be manipulated very easily if the person is willing and frames it in a positive or negative light.