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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim
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Academic piracy here.
Social science: sites.rutgers.edu/lee-jussim/
Substack: unsafescience.substack.com
Nothing here represents Rutgers.
- Introducing: The Activism to Academia to Activism Pipeline
- Nazism has been thoroughly discredited and stigmatized (for good reasons). But Marxism, which has arguably wreaked even more damage (albeit they had more time), is treated as a respectable and serious set of ideas. Why? (please, no dismissiveness like "leftists are all idiots")
- Huge meta-analysis (>1000 studies) and systematic review: Physical exercise is (on avg) more effective than psychotherapy or drugs for alleviating depression. bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… ht: @SteveStuWill
- 2 + 2 = A ham sandwich Proof: Take 2 slices of ham and put them between 2 slices of bread = ham sandwich.
- Barack Obama sounds here quite a lot like: @clairlemon @CHSommers @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying @ericweinstein @JonHaidt @sapinker @clayroutledge @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and even Dave Chappelle.Barack Obama calls out 'politically woke' social media generation
00:00 - The 1776 Project When African American scholars and public intellectuals lead the quest for truth and universal (not identity based) human rights: Correcting the errors and biases in the NYTimes 1619 Project and fighting wokeness, one fact at a time.
- Now they need to fire the DEI admin who incited the disruption & suspend the admins who failed to enforce their no disruption policy & suspend the students who disrupted.Stanford issues a letter of apology to Judge Duncan:
- America is a white supremacy. Cancel culture does not exist. There are no violent protests. Social Justice movements cannot possibly be authoritarian. 2+2=5.
- Social Psych News Flash: JUST ACCEPTED AT META-PSYCHOLOGY Registered Replication Report Famous Study Finding (N=127, shown below) "STEM faculty biased against women" -- so famous its been cited over 4000x & got the lead author invited to Obama's White House -- not merely fails to
- Another letter of recommendation, another school using commitment to social justice as a basis for grad admissions. Boston College.
- New Post. "We warned you. This post documents the extent to which we warned you, over and over for at least 25 years. At the end, it presents over 50 references documenting the historical attempt of dissident academics to warn the rest of academia that this could come if they did
- Nice detailed thread with results posted and excellent commentary on our DEI paper. FWIW, Kendi has called it "pseudoscience," "racist," and said it "misrepresents my work" (even though we quoted it exactly in our materials).Huge new result: Anti-racism trainings probably lead people to accuse others of racism even when they're not racist. That's exactly the result of a new study on DEI trainings, with a special focus on the impacts of the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. Let's dig in🧵
- Largest, most rigorous quantitative review of gender stereotype accuracy yet conducted finds: "By an overwhelming margin (85% of 673 comparisons), judges across the studies providing direct comparisons were correct about the direction of gender differences. Furthermore, three
