Wow, this stuff is pretty awful. I just read the paper to verify your claim, and the paper turned out to be not any better than the NYT article: mostly composed of PC fluff about “social construction” and how “Western civilization” is this and that. The only informative part is the figure on the last page of the PDF (buried after the references, no less!) which confirms your conclusion completely, but the text doesn’t even hint at it anywhere.
Yes. But woe to those people who only read the NYT article. Or who went so far as to download the PDF, but didn’t page-down obsessively past the bibliography… like I probably would have, if not for ciphergoth. Unsettling thought.
Wow, this stuff is pretty awful. I just read the paper to verify your claim, and the paper turned out to be not any better than the NYT article: mostly composed of PC fluff about “social construction” and how “Western civilization” is this and that. The only informative part is the figure on the last page of the PDF (buried after the references, no less!) which confirms your conclusion completely, but the text doesn’t even hint at it anywhere.
Lucky bad analysis doesn’t destroy the data.
Yes. But woe to those people who only read the NYT article. Or who went so far as to download the PDF, but didn’t page-down obsessively past the bibliography… like I probably would have, if not for ciphergoth. Unsettling thought.