Seems strange to question intent rather than the claim itself.
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Is it not important to understand each other well? (Especially when trying to have intelligible discussion on twitter).
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @seanrife and
No such thing as statement itself, and JP (linguist and communication researcher) knows. This is/was my common ground with him.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @o_guest and
Fine, but in all this we've become derailed. What is your empirical argument against JP's statement? Is there one or is it ethical?
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Replying to @seanrife @IrisVanRooij and
I interpret his statement (in contxt) to mean there is no evidence that essentialism is not true. But then who has the burden of proof?
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Replying to @JCSkewesDK @seanrife and
Again, ethically AND scientifically
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Replying to @JCSkewesDK @IrisVanRooij and
I'm a scientist. Not an ethicist.
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Replying to @seanrife @IrisVanRooij and
As a scientist I don't believe evidence of structural brain differences between genders is at all relevant to claims of psych essentialism
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Replying to @JCSkewesDK @seanrife and
We don't know anywhere enough about functional localization or specific plasticity processes involved
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Replying to @JCSkewesDK @seanrife and
....so I worry that there is too much opportunity to fill knowledge gaps with intuition
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Yeah, lazy explanations based on folk psychology/sociology.
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Replying to @o_guest @JCSkewesDK and
Indeed, the so-called 'real science' of sex differences still uses folk notions of 'sex'. It's time for some theoretical rigor in the field.
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