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 …
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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So, the reason I spent some time discussing problems in fields that I assume you take more seriously was to question whether you had really succeeded in providing good evidence for what I took to be your primary claim. As I said in my string of tweets, one doesn't need to do ...
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... a hoax to learn that there is quite a lot of ill-thought-out, inadequately supported, overly-ideological work in gender studies and related fields. However, in the areas of psychology and medicine I know very well, the very same statement could also be made. So, it seemed ..
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... to me that, while one might have v. serious concerns about the relative ease with which a person who is trying to trick a journal into accepting sub-par work can succeed in doing so, ur hoax did not provide good evidence that this was especially easy in the fields u targeted
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Seems irresponsible.
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