OK here is my take on the 'grievance studies hoax.' I think it shows that generally poorly reasoned, largely unfalsifiable papers with apparently absurd conclusions can get published in top journals in critical-studies-type fields. Fair enough. But it does NOT show a special ...https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/1047292046073950208 …
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Your whole analysis. I could go point-by-point, but it's pretty shocking. Felt like a reaction to rather than consideration of.
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I said at the end of the string that it was an initial offering, for the sake of more general discussion. So, in the original tweets I already indicated that I was saying something tentative and preliminary. If you have a particular concern I could try to speak to that
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Do you think differently about the probe and what it shows now?
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Since I gave about a dozen different thoughts in the string, it would really help me if you could ask a more specific question about some particular thing you want to know my current thinking about.
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I don't understand why you seemed so eager to throw other subjects under the bus rather than to grapple directly with what we saw in grievance studies.
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I took the thrust of your characterization of what you were showing in your hoax to be that there was a special rot in the fields you focused on. To support the claim of a special problem in field X, it is not enough show that, in field X, a small sample of journals of unknown ..
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... representativeness can be tricked into accepting papers written in bad-faith by authors whose proximate purpose is to disguise what they take to be absurd conclusions in language and arguments that are common in that field. Rather, one would have to show that (1) the sample
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.. of journals chosen was representative of journals taken seriously by scholars in those areas, and that (2) the same kind of chicanery would not succeed - if engaged in with the same deliberateness and efforts - in other fields that you do not see as being specially rotten.
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