Jeremy Stangroom

Many "progressive" social science types are committed to the belief that it's possible to "fix" inequality of outcome. Pinker's rejection of "blank slatism" threatens that belief. That's a big reason he's disliked.

I'm not, and am yet to meet, a progressive who believes in the equality of outcome so often portrayed, unless it means "the room to achieve the life that one wishes to achieve." I count as a Social Science type. Undertaking Master's in Psychological Research Methods at Birkbeck

Well you obviously haven't met many sociologists (I'm a Sociology PhD).

well that is even a misunderstanding of left wing sociologists. Those who believe it is possible to create equality of outcome want to see changes in society where everyone is treated as of equal worth

Are you a sociologist? My experience is that left-wing sociologists aim to explain all inequality in outcome in terms of social forces.

Does it say on my profile I'm a sociologist? I did study it though so have met a few. Well social forces are actually still very important and the big difference between sociologists and psychologists is that they attempt to address those problems

Well, of course social forces are important - but Pinker, and those of us who reject the blank slate idea, would never deny it. Lefty sociologists *do* routinely deny that individual differences are implicated in social inequality.

maybe they do but the fact remains that what they want to see are changes in society for the reasons stated earlier wheraas psychology as a discipline appears to merely reinforce stereotypes and the status quo