In politics everybody sucks. Well almost, David didn't say anything bad about the crazy centrists yet! https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1048493528815493120 …
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It'd be really weird if smart people *weren't* more leftist, given how g-loaded openness is.https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/980238259954515973 …
I used to think it was more telling until I realized how fucked up academics are in general, and which kind of persons academia attracts. After that, I was a lot less impressed by this argument. Now a days, the political climate causes the result almost itself...
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Mind you that many measures of openness rely on items that include items about aspects of political leftism. So in a way, it's an artificial result, consequence of sneaky bias in the test construction. There's a few other cases like that (RWA measure, for instance).
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This doesn't seem very ideological to me at allpic.twitter.com/MLsRAYPz9B
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That definition was from the chart I linked to. In general basically all political science research you'll see uses a pretty similar adjective approach because it's short and something you can put on surveys.
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Trump got 4% of the vote among Harvard undergrads. That has nothing to do with academia.pic.twitter.com/ALLoptyrES
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Of course it has. Who goes to Harvard? People who don't care about academic stuff just pick a local university. Indeed, this is the smart choice if you're not pursuing something further down that line.
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The idea that there are smart kids who are deciding to go to a local university instead of applying to elite schools because they just want to make money and don't care about academia is the most adorable European thing I've ever heard anybody say on twitter.
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The "local university" for smart kids is also generally going to be the more selective public unis in the state (source: one of the 40+ people in my HS cohort who went to UNC)
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Germany (and I think Scandinavia) basically doesn't have elite schools outside of some research labs. Most kids just go to their closest large regional school and then they're tracked to appropriately difficult classes. I wish our system was like that!
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(Dane here) In fact, it never occurred to me to go to a better university. I simply went to the closest one. There's only like 5 in Denmark, and Aarhus turns out to be a top ~110 world university, so I'm not complaining (Copenagen is ~50). I never went to classes anyway.
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There is only one university in Denmark generally considered fail tier, which is RUC. It has pretty terrible rankings and is full of nonsense SJW humanities hippies, founded in the 1970s by them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskilde_University#Rankings …
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