Unidentified Flying Systems of Oppression (UFSOs):
Ah, well, while I am here, I will end with a bit of nostalgia, some Oldies But Goodies in The Orwelexicon:
Misbackboned:
Miquarkaggressions:
A classic, comes up all the time in helping answer the question, "What CAN we conclude from that person making claims based on "the" social science?"
Rigorus Mortus Selectivus
When an earlier version of The Orwelexicon was banned by PsychToday, it was published in @Quillette (its shorter&can still be found here: quillette.com/2020/01/29/an-…
When @clairlemon tw'd out the entry on the right:
Blancofemophobia (left)
some responded, literally, w/image on right:
Probably the all-time most popular:
Emotional Imperialism
I'll end with this trifecta:
Most of you probably do not realize that Occam was a busy beaver, inventing far more than his well-known and popular Razor:
In doing this thread, I realized I had forgotten to add this, so JUST did so.
The One Thought Verse, from the little-known collaboration between Orwell and Tolkien:
Thread II: My Psych Today blogs on political bias and lack of intellectual/political diversity in academia.
This connects directly to Thread I, on the social psych of censorship. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
Back in the day, I had *some* hope of changing the hyperpartisanship massive political skew and bias in academia. Silly me. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
THREAD I: My Psych Today Posts Related to the Social Psych of Censorship and Intellectual Intolerance
(this means denunciations, demonization, and attempts to sanction people for their ideas, not just "criticize" them). psychologytoday.com/us/node/115920…
New Blog Post now live: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
A small or even infinitesimal (<1%) level of acts of discrimination can produce substantial experiences of discrimination among targeted groups.
Implications for policy and discourse excerpts to the right. 1/3
Of course, this is only 1200+/- word blog, and this IS Twitter (@NewLiberalsPod has been all over this lately), so I pre-emptively denounce myself for not addressing ALL THE OTHER EVILS IN THE WORLD
Shall we "follow the science"? A short thread of sources on Things That Do Not Work* to Increase Social Justice:
Trigger Warnings
Diversity Trainings
Implicit Bias Trainings.
*=Tests of their effectiveness fail to show any.
1/n
Trigger Warnings Do Not Work.
and likely cause more harm than they prevent (which is not hard, because they prevent hardly any harm).
New post just promoted to Essential Read under Replication Crisis at Psych Today***: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
***They either censor/edit my stuff or love it. More love than censorship, so I can't complain too much.
BUT: 1/2
If you click the image, under key points, it says this:
"An experimental manipulation in the study altered many dependent variables, making it unclear if the results are due to mindset differences."
That is NOT me, an editor added it. It is AMUSINGLY wrong.
(need 1 more tw)
2/3
AND I CANNOT REVISE IT. (email to editorial staff is out). A manip that altered many DV's would be good. BUT its wrong. The experimental conditions manipulated a ton of things all at once, making it hard to attribute results to mindset (or anything else).
Read post for details.
Remember when Jeffrey Sachs argued that: 1. There is no free speech crisis on campus
& (sic) 2. The (nonexistent) free speech crisis was over?
No? (see below).
Thread 1/n
W/(dare I say it?) data that "disrupts" that narrative or (dare I say it?) a "close look at the evidence."
First, let's dispense with the "crisis" narrative. The term is both subjective and extreme. Has climate change turned the world into a flaming pit of Hell? Is Covid the worst plague humanity has ever seen?
No? So we're all good, right?
Sachs has also claimed "its not my fault, I did not provide the titles, the editors did it!" This is true, but so what? Why did the editors give it those titles? Because they believed the titles captured the thematic points of the articles.