If your goal is to improve the world and the people with whom you are talking are a bunch of feminists getting them on the issue of them judging people is more likely to reach them then getting them on the issue of them not being in line with scientific evidence.
Also if you really believe that the frame of science is more useful for either of those goals where are your numbers. Where are the people that you studied who hold that belief that are more effective at discovering the truth and/or improving the world?
If you don’t have those numbers because nobody really cares about using the scientific method to validate that belief, you have to choices:
Stop burning witches
Admit that witchcraft exists
You can’t really argue that science is the best frame for improving the world and than hold that belief based on nonscientific reasoning that’s backed up by zero data.
It should be possible to find a metric for whether someone uses science as his primary frame and possible to find a way to measure whether an individual improves the world. At least if you do believe in the scientific project than it should be possible to measure such things. If you don’t think they are measurable, there goes your scientific method for finding out the truth.
If your goal is to improve the world and the people with whom you are talking are a bunch of feminists getting them on the issue of them judging people is more likely to reach them then getting them on the issue of them not being in line with scientific evidence.
Would you apply this kind of logic to other groups with a non-scientific frame, say creationists. Judging by your comment here I’m guessing the answer is no. So why are you so willing to adopt the feminist “frame” rather than call them out on their BS?
Would you apply this kind of logic to other groups with a non-scientific frame, say creationists.
It depends where and why I meet them. There a lot of value of promoting that the scientific frame of viewing things gets used in science classes. That’s what science classes are for. To the extend that you have good science classes they teach students to use the scientific frame of viewing the world.
That’s a cause worth fighting for. Not my fight, but I like the fact that there are people who care about fighting it.
My fight is more about getting science classes to actually teach students to do experiments to learn from empiric reality instead of believing in the authority of their textbooks.
If I have a small talk conversation with a woman between two Salsa dances and she mentions that she is a creationist I have absolutely no interest in “calling her out on her BS”. It would destroy rapport between us that will make the next dance worse. It will also likely be unable to change her view. It might even strengthen her view in creationism ( http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jmz/publication_the_antiscience_trope_is_culturally/ ).
A while ago I went to my meditation teacher and told her: “Bob is doing X and X is wrong.” She answered: “Yes, but he’s not at a level where he can learn what do to instead of X. It might take a year or two. If I raise the topic with him before he’s ready that will produce resistance around the topic that might be more harmful than helpful.”
If I want to change someone’s views than I have to understand the person I’m dealing with and what I want out of the situation. That allows for much more effective action than calling the ideas of the other person bullshit.
I once had an online discussion to deconvert a hardcore Darwinist. I succeeded in removing that framework but he replaced it replaced it with Zeitgeist-inspired collectivism. There wasn’t any real progress just a move from believing in one framework to believing in the next. No improvement in general ability to reason and taking empirical evidence seriously.
Today that’s not my goal. If I make someone long for real evidence that holding a scientific frame helps with improving the world instead of holding that belief on faith, I win.
You didn’t even talk about correcting mistakes but about calling out bullshit.
In NLP and hypnosis jargon there the concept of pacing and leading.
In most direct interaction it’s useful to adopt the frame of the person you are dealing with first. That creates rapport that you can then use to lead the person where you want them to go.
I have no attachment to the frame in which I’m operating. That allows me to be conscious about the frame I’m holding. It’s just a map. The map isn’t the territory.
Rationality is about winning and not about signaling something by wearing the right frame that looks cool to fellow rationalists.
If your goal is to improve the world and the people with whom you are talking are a bunch of feminists getting them on the issue of them judging people is more likely to reach them then getting them on the issue of them not being in line with scientific evidence.
Also if you really believe that the frame of science is more useful for either of those goals where are your numbers. Where are the people that you studied who hold that belief that are more effective at discovering the truth and/or improving the world?
If you don’t have those numbers because nobody really cares about using the scientific method to validate that belief, you have to choices:
Stop burning witches
Admit that witchcraft exists
You can’t really argue that science is the best frame for improving the world and than hold that belief based on nonscientific reasoning that’s backed up by zero data.
It should be possible to find a metric for whether someone uses science as his primary frame and possible to find a way to measure whether an individual improves the world. At least if you do believe in the scientific project than it should be possible to measure such things. If you don’t think they are measurable, there goes your scientific method for finding out the truth.
Would you apply this kind of logic to other groups with a non-scientific frame, say creationists. Judging by your comment here I’m guessing the answer is no. So why are you so willing to adopt the feminist “frame” rather than call them out on their BS?
It depends where and why I meet them. There a lot of value of promoting that the scientific frame of viewing things gets used in science classes. That’s what science classes are for. To the extend that you have good science classes they teach students to use the scientific frame of viewing the world. That’s a cause worth fighting for. Not my fight, but I like the fact that there are people who care about fighting it.
My fight is more about getting science classes to actually teach students to do experiments to learn from empiric reality instead of believing in the authority of their textbooks.
If I have a small talk conversation with a woman between two Salsa dances and she mentions that she is a creationist I have absolutely no interest in “calling her out on her BS”. It would destroy rapport between us that will make the next dance worse. It will also likely be unable to change her view. It might even strengthen her view in creationism ( http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jmz/publication_the_antiscience_trope_is_culturally/ ).
A while ago I went to my meditation teacher and told her: “Bob is doing X and X is wrong.” She answered: “Yes, but he’s not at a level where he can learn what do to instead of X. It might take a year or two. If I raise the topic with him before he’s ready that will produce resistance around the topic that might be more harmful than helpful.”
If I want to change someone’s views than I have to understand the person I’m dealing with and what I want out of the situation. That allows for much more effective action than calling the ideas of the other person bullshit.
I once had an online discussion to deconvert a hardcore Darwinist. I succeeded in removing that framework but he replaced it replaced it with Zeitgeist-inspired collectivism. There wasn’t any real progress just a move from believing in one framework to believing in the next. No improvement in general ability to reason and taking empirical evidence seriously.
Today that’s not my goal. If I make someone long for real evidence that holding a scientific frame helps with improving the world instead of holding that belief on faith, I win.
There’s a difference between not correcting someone’s mistake and adopting their frame.
You didn’t even talk about correcting mistakes but about calling out bullshit.
In NLP and hypnosis jargon there the concept of pacing and leading.
In most direct interaction it’s useful to adopt the frame of the person you are dealing with first. That creates rapport that you can then use to lead the person where you want them to go.
I have no attachment to the frame in which I’m operating. That allows me to be conscious about the frame I’m holding. It’s just a map. The map isn’t the territory.
Rationality is about winning and not about signaling something by wearing the right frame that looks cool to fellow rationalists.