But the real issue is the sordid history of social science "consensuses." It is sufficiently sordid that, just because another one may be emerging, absent meeting the Pyramid standards, I will remain very skeptical.
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1. The social sciences had a consensus that stereotypes are inaccurate. They were wrong.pic.twitter.com/u7GotnEoWr
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2. The social sciences had a consensus that, if you remove stereotype threat, it would eliminate, or at least reduce, demographic differences in achievement test scores. They were wrong. From Flore & Wichert, 2014, see also Finnigan&Corker's 2016 failed pre-registered replic.pic.twitter.com/RhuBVRuR4e
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3. There was a consensus that "implicit bias" was a powerful and pervasive source of discrimination and inequality. It was wrong.pic.twitter.com/hAb4VJN7ou
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4. There was a consensus for the "power of the situation" -- the idea that situations were far more predictive of behavior than individual differences. It was wrong. From this paper: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/Interps%20and%20Methods,%20JESP.pdf …pic.twitter.com/G9LRfYi734
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5. There was a consensus that, in the democratic west, there just were no leftwing authoritarians. It was wrong.pic.twitter.com/M9KvzyKoIO
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6. There was a consensus that self-fulfilling prophecies and other expectancy effects were powerful and pervasive. It was wrong.pic.twitter.com/fxxfXuA47i
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7. There was a consensus that it was really only or mostly conservatives who held prejudices; liberals were open minded egalitarians. It was wrong.pic.twitter.com/5QKrw5wOLD
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Many of the errors are consistent with leftist/liberal worldviews. Which should not be surprising, given the makeup of the social sciences. Here is psychology:pic.twitter.com/ncmdm4WH8Q
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Here are other social sciences:pic.twitter.com/vQGlv9or9W
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alternatively we could admit that social “scientists” are the commissars of academic and make formal rules about when they can denounce / harass actual scholars
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