>>2449285Date: April 30, 2016
Author: Sargon
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I’d like to start by commending Kristie for standing up to debate in an environment where the most prominent feminist theorists fail to adequately engage with dissenting viewpoints and cloister themselves away in academia. I genuinely wish to thank her for engaging in this dialogue.
Feminism is a social science and therefore naturally uses the social science method of asking people things to gather data. As you can imagine, this leads to data that is hard to measure twice. When 270 scientists on five different continents decided to try to replicate 100 cognitive and social psychology experiments, 75% of the social psychology experiments could not be replicated. Even when the studies could be replicated, the results were consistently found to be exaggerated.
I’m sure one contributory factor is the extremely high amount of political bias in American universities. A 2014 study by the Higher Education Research Institute found that “59.8 percent of all undergraduate faculty nationwide identify as far left or liberal, compared with only 12.8 percent as far right or conservative”. This bias is even more pronounced in the social sciences. A 2015 study found that 58 to 66 percent of social scientists were left-wing and only 5 to 8 percent right wing, and that there are eight Democrats for every Republican. For some reason, conservatives aren’t signing up in droves to do gender studies.
This has many effects on the social sciences, the first being on the very language used to describe the subjects. This is a quote from an article on Scientific American.
