Is this a fucking joke? Every cognitive bias I can think of is on FULL display, yet the author claims rationality. If you think like this, you’re 100% the problem, and please just shut up until you’ve figured out why you’re wrong.https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/ …
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It's Quillette. "Every cognitive bias on full display while vehemently claiming rationality" is their slogan. What did you expect from the rebranding of Social Darwinism Monthly?
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That publication is somewhere to the right of Ann Coulter and left of Der Stürmer, written in the tone of a Victorian gentleman quietly talking about the merits of euthanasia at a club in New York, circa 1901. Not sure where to place it on the joke vs. actual harm spectrum.
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Given I see quite a few scientists think it's a gem of a mag, I'd say closer to harm than pure LOLZ.
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Yes, unfortunately, some scientists have always found social Darwinism/scientific racism appealing. Perhaps the highest-profile and most recent among them (not counting the numerous quacks/low-quality ones, like Murray) are W.D. Hamilton (the "selfish gene") and William Shockley.
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And the lack of intentional lulz makes Quillete a particularly weak, boring, and exceptionally anachronistic publication, seemingly transported from Victorian times. More powerful contemporary ultra-conservative writing embraces and acknowledges the emotional romanticism.
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Your tweet – which embraces mystery and gut feeling – is an example of a much more effective and interesting style of conservative writing. The problem with Quillette is that once you profess to adopt the scientific narrative, you must play by its actual rules.
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