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If it is okay for people to express their individual opinions, I don't see why it is worse to collect 1000 folks opinions and express those. I don't see the "moral hazard" of asking why people aren't bothered by A Star is Born.
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The moral hazard exists because you, as a prominent male academic, are not in fact the highest-risk stakeholder in this conversation. That's still all the women out there who work in male-dominated workplaces. So burden of care is higher for you.
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Moral hazard means exactly what it normally means. It means you have power without commensurate risk exposure. It means if you get your analysis *wrong*, especially in a casual blog/twitter quick-and-dirty take, others suffer the consequences more.
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Almost always when academics study things that can go wrong, those are things that mainly go wrong to other people, not especially us. Should we stop studying such things, because we are not the folks at max risk?
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This is not generally true. Such risks are not attendant on say questions of studying supernovas or comparing battery material performance. Where this is true, steps can be taken in proportion to the moral hazard. See my thread linked several tweets above where I was tagged in
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Okay, I've read your thread, and I seriously disagree with the claim that you should not talk about a topic unless you are in the group most at risk. I agree one should be more careful the more is at stake, but practically it is criticism keeps error in line, not care plans.
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For example, I study law & economics, but I'm not a prosecutor, judge, or defendant. It is okay to criticize the military even if you aren't a solider. I have criticized medicine even if I'm not a doctor nor an especially sick patient.
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Yes, and I'd apply the same lens to any of your work that I might read: does the methodological care you demonstrate have an impedance match to the risk you personally face on that *specific* topic. A fair fraction of scholarly publishing (by no means all) meets that standard.
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