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Should I change my X handle to The Dark Mutilator of Bad Research?

A lot of folks don't believe in free speech. "Oh no! We believe in free speech! As long as it's not anti-American! Or bigoted towards trans people! Or anti-Israel! Or said by foreigners who are guests!" Exactly. You don't believe in free speech.

"The intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation."

In My Positionality Statement at Unsafe Science, I identify as a tennis player. From this Positionality, I point out that almost everyone, even non tennis players, knows a Swiss male. Roger Federer.

Many have indeed listened, which is why we talk so much about how entire academic fields are populated by leftwing ideologues who are interested in scholarship only to the extent it helps launder classroom activism and gives their radicalism a patina of intellectual seriousness.

Its amazing what one can discover if one does not begin and end one's claims with "discrimination" (there is a whole cottage industry of social psychology articles claiming that denial of discrimination is itself prejudice).

Shocking. Interestingly, it discomfirms a conclusion reached by Kalev & Dobbins that hiring a "diversity manager" works at least to increase organizational diversity.

God bless America. (And I'm an atheist but totally endorse the sentiment).

Contra most of the noise about racism and sexism in the academy, status/prestige bias is probably the biggest bias. For things like pubs & grants, probably even larger than the political biases I rail against. John also recently tw'd out a paper finding that when early career