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Tag Archives: race/gender/etc
Trouble Walking Down The Hallway
Williams and Ceci just released National Hiring Experiments Reveal 2:1 Faculty Preference For Women On STEM Tenure Track, showing a strong bias in favor of women in STEM hiring. I’ve previously argued something like this was probably the case, so … Continue reading
Black People Less Likely
[Content warning: Polyamory, race] I. The best reporting on social science statistics, like the best reporting in most areas, comes from The Onion: CAMBRIDGE, MA—A Harvard University study of more than 2,500 middle-income African-American families found that, when compared to … Continue reading
Perceptions Of Required Ability Act As A Proxy For Actual Required Ability In Explaining The Gender Gap
I. I briefly snarked about Leslie et al (2015) last week, but I should probably snark at it more rigorously and at greater length. This is the paper that concludes that “women are underrepresented in fields whose practitioners believe that … Continue reading
Untitled
[trigger warning: social justice, condemnation of some feminism, tangential reference to eating disorder. Note that although our names are very similar, I am NOT the same person as Scott Aaronson and he did NOT write this article. Not meant as … Continue reading
Framing For Light Instead Of Heat
I. Ezra Klein uses my analysis of race and justice as a starting point to offer a thoughtful and intelligent discussion of what exactly it means to control for something in a study. I’m not really going to call it … Continue reading
Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Previously reviewed: effects of marijuana legalization, health effects of wheat, effectiveness of SSRIs, effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous Does the criminal justice system treat African-Americans fairly? I always assumed it obviously didn’t. Then a while ago I read this harshly polemical … Continue reading
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
[Content warning: Politics, religion, social justice, spoilers for “The Secret of Father Brown”. This isn’t especially original to me and I don’t claim anything more than to be explaining and rewording things I have heard from a bunch of other … Continue reading
Cuddle Culture
[Content warning: TMI, polyamory.] I. Another one of those times three very different people writing three very different things all remind me of each other. Ozy got very excited recently because Heartiste wrote a post attacking polyamory (Ozy reminds me … Continue reading
[Ozy] A Response to Spandrell
[Content note: Gender, relationships, sexuality. Some sexually explicit content. Discussion without endorsement of various forms of transphobia, homophobia, et cetera. Ozy wishes you to know they wrote this in a very timely manner after Spandrell’s original post and I just … Continue reading