1/ Something I wish people outside of #academia understood: You can find a paper with quantitive evidence or sound arguments -- and, sometimes, even both! (har har) -- supporting just about any shit post you want to make.
That doesn't mean it's True.
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I don't want to toss dirt on an entire family of disciplines, but... Is it even *possible* to obtain statistically rigorous and extrapolable results in the social sciences? Has always seemed the systems are too complex, w/too many moving parts, to achieve that level of rigor.
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Sometimes it is and sometimes it is not. But, it is almost always easy to do poorly.
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Someone asked me the other day (rhetorically) why I don’t have more followers than some of the grifters on [x] topic, and the more I think about it, it is because I try to caveat a lot of what I say with the idea that there is other evidence or explanations.
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This is not to toot my own horn, but to point out that the learner has to be committed to learning, because a lot of incentives run counter.
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