I think the confusion is in thinking it's PoMo math. It's just math, but the thinking that goes into the process before hand is PoMo
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i don't need pomo to know that most people have poor intuition for and understanding of statistics. my career is based on it these days
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At least now we're all raised to know about our confirmation biases.
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But PoMo undermines this. It valorises confirmation biases. We are taught how to practice confirmation bias in universities.
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That was not my experience at all. Can you give examples for me?
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If you want to find racism, read everything as racist. Same for sexism & homophobia etc.
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Where you never asked 'Do a feminist reading' 'Do a queer reading' 'Do a Marxist reading' & get completely different meanings from a text?
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This can be a fun experiment in seeing how differently we can read but when this goes into activism, ppl pick one & declare it true.
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When people reify it as truth, that's a mistake, but it's not unique to PoMo and can still be challenged within the system.
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I am talking about PoMo. Those sets of ideas are called postmodernism.
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If anyone is saying discourses create knowledge, knowledge is subjective, gender is a social construct etc etc, they're doing postmodernism.
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