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17 sept 2011

Personal Experience

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Personal experience is a horribly flawed way of reaching valid conclusions about reality. Nobody is a representative sample of anything sig...
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22 jun 2011

Studies Show...

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Whenever anyone says "studies show..." just ask them what studies they are. The phrase "studies show' is about as valid a...

Bullshit Fields (18)

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Educational Testing and Psychometrics . Here we have media reports on how little kids know about history, but the testing organization marks...
20 jun 2011

Bullshit Fields (17)

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Social Science Social science, in general, is bullshit. Thou shalt not commit a social science, said Auden. The problem with social science...
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15 jun 2011

Duncan, Bloom, HD, and Psychoanalysis

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Ok, I know that I said psychoanalysis was a bullshit field. Here I am going to take a slightly different perspective. From the historical ...
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10 jun 2011

Bullshit Fields (16)

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New Historicism and Postcolonialism . New Historicism is bullshit because it uses anecdote rather than data. You find a suggestive simila...
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9 jun 2011

Bullshit Fields (15)

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Semiotics . Semiotics once seemed to be the field of the future, or at least of the present, before Umberto Eco became a best-selling noveli...
8 jun 2011

Bullshit Fields (14)

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Cultural Studies. What makes Cultural Studies BS? Well, it is not. But if someone asked me argue that is was, this what I would say. It ha...
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Bullshit Fields (13)

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Psychiatry For obvious reasons, drug companies make very sure that their positive studies are published in medical journals and doctors know...
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7 jun 2011

Bullshit Fields (12)

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Deconstruction. (Ok, that's not even a field, since it's more of a theory. I even like Derrida, so I have to phrase this rather del...
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Whenever Anyone Says...

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Whenever anyone proposes to make the study of literature more scientific, or calls the humanities bullshit because it has trouble with verif...
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Generalized Skepticism?

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Despite my skepticism about many fields, in humanities, social science, and the hard sciences, I still believe in the idea that there is suc...
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6 jun 2011

Cherry Picking

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Suppose you tested a classroom of 30 kids for about 40 separate variables. Chances are you would find that some of those variables would li...
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Bullshit Fields (11)

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I've read this paper before and have gone back to it recently. It makes a plausible case for the seemingly counterintuitive argument th...
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The Social Misconstruction of Reality

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This book by Hamilton, the Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community is one I want to read. ...
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5 jun 2011

Hard and Soft (2)

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Here is an example of linguist who is able to contextualize an intellectual debate in broad terms, looking not just at the empirical eviden...
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4 jun 2011

Hard and Soft

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Now obviously the harder the field is, the more likely it is not to be called bullshit. Hard science like physics or chemistry seems beyond ...
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Bullshit Fields (10)

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Nutrition . Once again, I'm not in a position to evaluate the intellectual solidity of this field. From the point of view of a member ...
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3 jun 2011

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Economics . I don't actually know enough about economics to know what percentage of it is bullshit. It seems like its predictive power...
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Creative Writing Academia is very good at reproducing forms of writing, standard modes that will acceptable to other academics. It is desi...
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