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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      OK, that's it. If you are a statistician who wants to say that the wage gap must be looked at statistically and also that statistics can never ever consider women's choices as their own choices or disprove discrimination as a cause of the wage gap, you are getting muted.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      Also, if you're a statistician who says that some statistical work has been done showing discrimination as the cause of the wage gap & then you show me a small sample of interpretations of competence by gender in one workplace, expect to get blocked.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      Also if you're a statistician who is rude and condescending to me and speaks in deliberately obscure & irrelevant jargon which is then explained to me very clearly & simply by someone who shares your expertise but not your arseholery, expect to get blocked.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      Also, if you are a person in any field who is committed to obfuscating, confusing, & ideologising the issue of gender equality in order to maintain a narrative of female victimhood & make it impossible to investigate and address, expect to lose this culture war & all credibility.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      You had the chance to go to university, have a career as an academic, produce rigorous scholarship & actually help make society better,kinder, more knowledgeable & more just and you chose to make it darker, uglier & filled with more resentment, self-pity, rage & confusion.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      I am cross now. I didn't know the field of statistics & that was used to spew woo all over me in incomprehensible jargon whilst being rude & condescending & telling me I had no place discussing gender stats. I was willing to accept my ignorance.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      Then my American statistician friends wake up & inform me this is the normal ideological woo I deal with daily mediated thru language I don't know. This is how dishonest people work. By making others feel confused & ignorant & incapable of addressing issues that affect us all.

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      I will write a book which will help people to cut through the bullshit when it comes in the form of the social sciences and humanities and SocJus activism. If others could write a guide to addressing obscurantist woo when it appears in other jargon, that would be great.

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      We have a right to expect people who address important social justice issues to do in language that can be understood and to do so honestly, supplying evidence & reasoned argument, not to confuse & dissemble & bully others out of even trying to engage with & understand them.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

      I know it's not the hugest problem in the world right now but it does matter. A lot. How do we progress as a society if our progressives have been overtaken by lunatics?

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        2. Citizen K‏ @britcit May 28
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          It's a huge problem. If basic mechanisms of rational discourse keep being corroded we will face incredible difficulties. It's Orwellian that people are so enthusiastically, and presumably - at least on some level - engaging in deceit. Keep calling it out, Helen. It's important.

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        3. Citizen K‏ @britcit May 28
          Replying to @britcit @HPluckrose

          Plus, you're really fucking good at it :-)

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        1. Kareem Sabri‏ @kareem_sabri May 28
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          It might be the biggest problem, because it affects how society studies and addresses all other problems. When academic statisticians argue nonsense about causality - which I’m convinced he didn’t understand since he refused to engage on it - it’s very worrying.

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        1. Paul Bates‏ @PaulBates7 May 28
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          This is exactly the biggest problem in the world.

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        1. Pallor Ergo Doom‏ @SlagOffTwits May 28
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          That's progress!

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