Posts Tagged by social sciences
Quillette: Young scholar denounced as “racist” by mob of 300 elders; evidence not cited
| December 9, 2018 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Psychology |
Probably not wanted either: The latest victim of an academic mobbing is 28-year-old social scientist Noah Carl who has been awarded a Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellowship at St Edmund’s College at the University of Cambridge. Rarely has the power asymmetry between the academic mob and its victim been so stark. Dr Carl is […]
Evolutionary psychology: The cat among the pigeons!
| November 28, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Psychology |
Confession: Some of us never took evolutionary psychology (a discipline whose subject died a very long time ago but allegedly lives on in all of us) seriously enough to wonder if it could actually create controversies in psychology. Apparently so: In terms of the political bias among social psychologists, Buss and von Hippel found that 95 […]
Half of social science replication studies failed under near-ideal conditions
| November 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Peer review, Psychology |
It’s becoming harder to ignore the stench: The drive recruited labs around the world to try to replicate the results of 28 classic and contemporary psychology experiments. Only half were reproduced successfully using a strict threshold for significance that was set at P < 0.0001 (the P value is a common test for judging the […]
Social sciences: The war on empirical fact and objectivity
| October 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Psychology, Science |
Some of us have a perhaps unhealthy fascination with just how bad the social sciences have become. We hope we can justify our amazement (and hilarity) over the easy hoaxes and all that on the grounds that real science also faces a war on math (“say goodbye to x and y”). Watching what happens to […]
Sokal hoaxes strike social science again!
| October 3, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology |
Even the most alert reader may not recall our piece on how gender theory can turn a dog’s life into a, well, dog’s life: Turns out, it may have been another Sokal hoax: Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon […]
Why do we think “social psychology” is science anyway?
| September 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology, Science |
More clutter building up in the inbox about the unreproducible results from social sciences: From ScienceDaily: Today, in Nature Human Behavior, a collaborative team of five laboratories published the results of 21 high-powered replications of social science experiments originally published in Science and Nature, two of the most prestigious journals in science. They failed to replicate […]
Enough of treating scientists like gods!
| September 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Peer review, Psychology |
That’s a big part of the problem with peer review and replication failures. Don’t believe me? Get this: In response to massive failures in so-called social sciences: “The findings reinforce the roles that two inherent intuitions play in scientific decision-making: our drive to create a coherent narrative from new data regardless of its quality or […]
