I'm a Rutgers alumni, and seeing your posts makes me a bit sad I never ventured into the psych department past 101.
Curious on if you ever found yourself talking with any of the other "internet famous" professors, like Brittany Cooper or James Livingston. I imagine the day to day life of professors is pretty quiet and insular, so it doesn't seem likely.
Brilliant! I feel I should write my positionality statement. They do not ask for them in chemistry yet, but I am sure it will soon come. Many chemistry journals are already asking to specify your pronouns, race, disabilty status, etc as a part of the submission process.
This is a great piece, Lee, I enjoyed every word of it. But here's a shorter version.
Social Science is not science. It's scientism. Social Science can never establish causation, only correlation. Social Science cannot produce anything that even remotely resembles Newton's Laws of Motion - which Einstein showed were not "true" but they remain damned useful to this day. The replication problem in Social Science will never be solved because you can't step into the same river twice. The entire edifice of Social Science is built on false premises, perpetuated by a corrupt academic system joined at the hip with a corrupt publishing system. Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln? :)
I love this damn thing. Read it aloud to wifey, flipping the iPad to show her all the graphics and now I’m half laughed out, half tired out. Positionality, puh! I always had to state my position on the “compass” with respect to my privilege and power in St. Paul schools in the 2010s, as well as make a mission statement to the Dept of Education how I was doing in owning my white privilege. All of this is akin to pivoting in a gunner turret constantly to shoot before being shot out of the sky in war. Sheeshush Chrisht. Sharing! Thank you, Theo
Regarding the replication issue - As Joe Heinrich's WEIRDest People book shows, US undergrads are are representative of US undergrads, and NOT humanity as a whole. The concern about VERY limited applicability to others exists in addition to any funny business with which results are reported and which are not.
When I was in grad school in the 90's I don't recall "Pre-registration" being a thing - One collected however many samples were dictated by one's experimental design (& used all of them in the analysis).
Judaism isn't a race or ethnicity
This is awesome Lee. Thanks for sharing.
I'm a Rutgers alumni, and seeing your posts makes me a bit sad I never ventured into the psych department past 101.
Curious on if you ever found yourself talking with any of the other "internet famous" professors, like Brittany Cooper or James Livingston. I imagine the day to day life of professors is pretty quiet and insular, so it doesn't seem likely.
Brilliant! I feel I should write my positionality statement. They do not ask for them in chemistry yet, but I am sure it will soon come. Many chemistry journals are already asking to specify your pronouns, race, disabilty status, etc as a part of the submission process.
This is a great piece, Lee, I enjoyed every word of it. But here's a shorter version.
Social Science is not science. It's scientism. Social Science can never establish causation, only correlation. Social Science cannot produce anything that even remotely resembles Newton's Laws of Motion - which Einstein showed were not "true" but they remain damned useful to this day. The replication problem in Social Science will never be solved because you can't step into the same river twice. The entire edifice of Social Science is built on false premises, perpetuated by a corrupt academic system joined at the hip with a corrupt publishing system. Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln? :)
I love this damn thing. Read it aloud to wifey, flipping the iPad to show her all the graphics and now I’m half laughed out, half tired out. Positionality, puh! I always had to state my position on the “compass” with respect to my privilege and power in St. Paul schools in the 2010s, as well as make a mission statement to the Dept of Education how I was doing in owning my white privilege. All of this is akin to pivoting in a gunner turret constantly to shoot before being shot out of the sky in war. Sheeshush Chrisht. Sharing! Thank you, Theo
Regarding the replication issue - As Joe Heinrich's WEIRDest People book shows, US undergrads are are representative of US undergrads, and NOT humanity as a whole. The concern about VERY limited applicability to others exists in addition to any funny business with which results are reported and which are not.
When I was in grad school in the 90's I don't recall "Pre-registration" being a thing - One collected however many samples were dictated by one's experimental design (& used all of them in the analysis).