Emil O W Kirkegaard

This describes many "consensuses" in social psychology (including but not not just politicized ones). "Consensus" is a political argument. Validity and strength of underlying evidence is a scientific argument.https://twitter.com/Jon_StewartMill/status/1020094940167254022 …

Yes, its an interesting point. I wonder, had there been, say, a survey, of psychologists circa 2005-2010, would there have been a consensus of belief that the IAT was a good measure of implicit bias, which was a powerful and pervasive source of discrim and inequality? IDK, but...

often, "consensus" is based on claims in the pubbed lits (I think that is where the orig 97% climate consensus came from; the lit, not a survey). And pubbed lits in psych are replete w/so many biases its hard to know what to make of them.

There's lots of climate science surveys too with congruent results. That consensus is real enough. You can survey people and control for political imbalance in the results.

Have a read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists%27_views_on_climate_change …