Dad taught in a psych department, and one semester ran a research methods course. One day he was out of town and arranged a panel of his colleagues. One was a postmodernist/feminist woman; a second, an unnamed person who took a middle approach. The third was my mom.
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(quick intermission Penelope is demanding an expedition outside)pic.twitter.com/2saMXAqVDl
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So--my mom. She is a gentle, kind, and incredibly conflict-averse woman. She was a serious scholar and worked very hard--too hard--and accomplished in her field. (She worked in a non-psych department after her PhD.) Now retired, she's taken up kite flying.
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I don't know very much about the methodological divide in psychology as it existed in the 1990s; this probably would have been during the Science Wars. By dad's sketch, the postmodernists were skeptical of psychometrics in particular, and (!!!) dismissed the need for replication.
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The idea of the panel was to present students (unsure whether grad or undergrad) in the class with an overview of perspectives in psychological research from active scholars. My dad left on his trip unconcerned; it seemed like the equivalent of a high school sub putting in a VHS
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No one knows exactly what happened in the classroom that day. This was before cell phones, and--as we shall see--no one left in a condition to talk about it at length. Our only record is my dad's recollection of his call home that evening.
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Dad: How'd it go? Mom: (quietly) Um Dad: W . . . well? Mom: Well . . . um. I made [postmodernist/feminist] cry Dad: You . . . what? Mom: I WASN'T GOING TO LET HER SIT THERE AND TALK ABOUT MY LIFE'S WORK LIKE THAT IN FRONT OF STUDENTS, DADROBOT. CAN YOU BELIEVE HER? (beat) Um
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Replying to @eigenrobot
making outgroup cry is your heartwarming thranksgiving story?
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only very incidentally about making the outgroup cry and not at all about Thanksgiving :) my mom is a culture war draft dodger and incredibly normie in her private and public life
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I admit I've been owned, but not because of attracting attention about something incidental, or misunderstanding this as about thanksgiving, but because you're the more virtous, kind person in that you can love a normie
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I did try to set that up by noting that she decided to take up kite flying as an avocation after retiring!
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