I'm not sure this is correct. A spade can be used in archaeology and/or to dig mass graves. The tool is amoral though the user misapplies it
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Science is not a tangible physical object. Your metaphor fails.
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Science doesn't have to be an object for the metaphor to work. That's why poets can metaphorize love and why you, yourself, 1/2
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Are you saying that the measured average differences between men and women differ depending on how you look at it? That's not how it works
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It's not that the numbers change, but what a metric means & doesn't mean can change drastically depending on how you look at it
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And that goes all the way down to how good of a measurement something is for what you suppose it to be measuring (ex: IQ as intelligence)
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The facts stay the facts. You can decide afterwards what to do or not to do abut them. That's when morality comes into it.
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I think you're misunderstanding this. The theoretical, purely utopic version of science may be like that. That's not science in practice.
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Science itself cannot exist without the sociocultural biases surrounding it. To assume such is a fallacy.
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Science aims to eliminate such biases, but by its own metrics, does a pretty poor job at that.
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Yes, these studies would mean nothing to a forgotten tribe in the Amazon. That does not mean that these averages do not exist.
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Studies are done on large groups and are replicated and used to predict things and see if the prediction are correct to avoid bias.
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These averages are as close to fact as any observation made about people. They predict, are replicable and have been done on many.
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"As close to fact as any" is not the same as close to fact. It's well known that a lot of psych studies have limits. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716 …
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Cue arm waving Paul Feyerabend picture.
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And just like that, your credibility is gone. Nice magic trick, Em. Beats the hell out of palming cards.
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