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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 8

    India is the worst country in the world for women? US 10th worst? A Thompson-Reuters "study" with these claims is based on anonymous subjective impressions, not data: a travesty of social science. Christina Hoff Sommers exposes the scandal. https://youtu.be/hc42V3WzAwA  via @YouTube

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      2. Amitabha Bandyopadhy‏ @abandopa Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker @himdaughter

        "Perception of experts" - While ranking the universities around the world, 60% weightage is assigned to perception of experts distributed over three categories. Indian universities fare badly in there and we are beaten with that stick even by our own policy makers @Sandeep_1966

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      3. Amitabha Bandyopadhy‏ @abandopa Aug 9
        Replying to @abandopa @sapinker and

        I make the same point as is made in this video - Please "rank" using ONLY hard data but I guess the ranking agencies aren't interested as hard data cannot be left to interpretation of "experts"! Tragedy is - "ignoring" such perception based categorization is not an option!

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      2. Violette Boyko‏ @VioletteBoyko Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Scandal? You know what is a scandal? Women giving birth in the US have the HIGHEST DEATH RATE in the industrialized world. Apparently, women dying due to negligence is no big deal to you.https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/10/maternal-deaths-mothers-mortality-column/595818002/ …

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      3. Matt Rufo‏ @MatthewRufo Aug 8
        Replying to @VioletteBoyko @sapinker @YouTube

        Caring about an academic scandal does not preclude you from caring about women dying as a result of negligence during childbirth. These things are not mutually exclusive. Framing this as if Pinker doesn't care about such an issue is, at best, a dishonest & uncharitable tactic.

        1 reply 0 retweets 40 likes
      4. Violette Boyko‏ @VioletteBoyko Aug 8
        Replying to @MatthewRufo @sapinker @YouTube

        I disagree. The big picture Pinker is pushing is that it is outrageous to suggest women's rights are in danger in the US. Having the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world suggests otherwise. Why does Pinker ignore this?

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      5. Matt Rufo‏ @MatthewRufo Aug 8
        Replying to @VioletteBoyko @sapinker @YouTube

        The point he was making is that the study he was referring to lacks any sort of rigor and was simply bad science. Being the worst country in the industrialized world for maternal mortality is horrendous and this study is is deeply flawed. Both are true.

        2 replies 1 retweet 26 likes
      6. Matt Rufo‏ @MatthewRufo Aug 8
        Replying to @MatthewRufo @VioletteBoyko and

        To expect anyone to touch on a specific point orthogonally related to the one they are actually making is not a reasonable expectation, especially on Twitter.

        1 reply 0 retweets 20 likes
      7. Violette Boyko‏ @VioletteBoyko Aug 8
        Replying to @MatthewRufo @sapinker @YouTube

        I certainly don't expect anyone to share deep insights on the Twitter. However, what someone chooses to highlight is indeed revealing of bias/agenda. I am puzzled by Pinker's and Haidt's mission to convince women & minorities how GREAT our lives are "historically speaking".

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      8. Matt Rufo‏ @MatthewRufo Aug 8
        Replying to @VioletteBoyko @sapinker @YouTube

        Didn't realize you could read minds. That's an impressive talent. Although if you cannot read minds then assuming motives based on someone NOT addressing an orthogonally related issue would be uncharitable. Perhaps applying the principle of charity would benefit our discourse.

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      1. Dennis McCarthy‏ @4threvolt Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Actually, this is indeed an informative and alarming study ... of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the power of confirmation-bias in reporters, and the inability of many to accept the plain realities of the world that surrounds them.

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      2. cape dravida‏ @CapeDravida Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Thank you

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      3. Niranjan(Nero) Bisht‏ @professorner0 Aug 8
        Replying to @CapeDravida @sapinker @YouTube

        I think you are not getting it, @sapinker is trying to show how bad data can effect perception. We are living in an age of informational overload where people like trump, Putin and Kim Jong manipulate media as they see fit. We need our journalists to be more careful then ever.

        2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
      4. SATS M‏ @Satheeshbom Aug 11
        Replying to @professorner0 @CapeDravida and

        I want to add one more entity TDK and Pappu team also use Media to manipulate heavily in India.

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      2. jay b‏ @Jayesh27 Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker @anuraag_saxena @YouTube

        Pakistan is safest , followed by Iran , Saudi Arabia is close Third

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      1. Saurabh  🍁‏ @SSahuTweet Aug 11
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        From all Indianspic.twitter.com/PisE5qUw6o

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      2. david shuey‏ @DesignShuey Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        January 2018: USA is one of the Top 10 SAFEST places for women in the world (#9):http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-safest-countries-in-the-world-for-women-2018-1/?r=AU&IR=T …

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      3. Florian Winter‏ @FlorianWinter Aug 9
        Replying to @DesignShuey @sapinker @YouTube

        Not a contradiction. It only means that there are in total 19 countries in he world.

        0 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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