Sorry my mistake. As far as the paper titles goes.
As far as the funding goes the National Science Foundation isn’t an entity that I would see as spearheading the social justice movement.
The same goes for the Templeton Foundation. They have the reputation of wanting “progress in spiritual discoveries” instead of “advancing social justice”.
Both groups are quite big and may fund more than you think; not that the grantors always get what they think they’re getting or are the only people who are then allowed to draw upon the research. For example, consider “stereotype threat”, much beloved of social-justice types for explaining how bad white people keep test scores low for women and blacks; you can see the NSF certainly has been involved in that research in the past just with a cursory google: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22stereotype%20threat%22%20%22National%20Science%20Foundation%22 (I count ~4 NSF grants attested to just from the snippet-view for the first page).
Both groups are quite big and may fund more than you think; not that the grantors always get what they think they’re getting or are the only people who are then allowed to draw upon the research.
I do accept that both groups do fund a large variety of courses but I still wouldn’t conclude from the funding source that there a bias in the direction of the social justice movement.
When thinking about the title “The neural basis of stereotyping” you might be right that it smells like pseudoscience. It’s a bit like the “The neural basis of acupuncture”. Instead of searching for the neural basis it would make much more sense to focus of studying the actual effect.
I wonder if I picked up to much stereotypes about fMRI research ;)
I do accept that both groups do fund a large variety of courses but I still wouldn’t conclude from the funding source that there a bias in the direction of the social justice movement.
I never said the NSF is biased in favor of SJ. I said if you had bothered to look at the vita instead of stopping at the most convenient place, you would have found a number of paper and grant titles which indicate a more than theoretical interest in topics strongly associated with SJ on top of his affiliation with an institute with a strong background both current and historical in liberal thought & SJ-like figures such as Cornell West and to borrow from parallel ongoing conversations, crucified Sumners for his well-founded suggestion that the elite math achievement gap might be a necessary consequence of gender differences. And then you said the NSF was evidence against SJ association, which is either wrong or weak evidence since they fund related research all the time.
The might have crucified Summers but they led him rise to be president at Harvard in the first place and didn’t seem to successfully taught him not to say things like that.
Cornell West has professor for religion and then professor for African-American Studies. As far as my instincts go I wouldn’t expect the same thing from Harvard department of psychology than I would expect from the department of African-American Studies.
And then you said the NSF was evidence against SJ association, which is either wrong or weak evidence since they fund related research all the time.
I didn’t. I took your post as saying that I should update in the direction of him being part of the social justice movement based on his funding source and wanted to reject updating based on that information in that direction.
Sorry my mistake. As far as the paper titles goes.
As far as the funding goes the National Science Foundation isn’t an entity that I would see as spearheading the social justice movement.
The same goes for the Templeton Foundation. They have the reputation of wanting “progress in spiritual discoveries” instead of “advancing social justice”.
Both groups are quite big and may fund more than you think; not that the grantors always get what they think they’re getting or are the only people who are then allowed to draw upon the research. For example, consider “stereotype threat”, much beloved of social-justice types for explaining how bad white people keep test scores low for women and blacks; you can see the NSF certainly has been involved in that research in the past just with a cursory google: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22stereotype%20threat%22%20%22National%20Science%20Foundation%22 (I count ~4 NSF grants attested to just from the snippet-view for the first page).
I do accept that both groups do fund a large variety of courses but I still wouldn’t conclude from the funding source that there a bias in the direction of the social justice movement.
When thinking about the title “The neural basis of stereotyping” you might be right that it smells like pseudoscience. It’s a bit like the “The neural basis of acupuncture”. Instead of searching for the neural basis it would make much more sense to focus of studying the actual effect.
I wonder if I picked up to much stereotypes about fMRI research ;)
I never said the NSF is biased in favor of SJ. I said if you had bothered to look at the vita instead of stopping at the most convenient place, you would have found a number of paper and grant titles which indicate a more than theoretical interest in topics strongly associated with SJ on top of his affiliation with an institute with a strong background both current and historical in liberal thought & SJ-like figures such as Cornell West and to borrow from parallel ongoing conversations, crucified Sumners for his well-founded suggestion that the elite math achievement gap might be a necessary consequence of gender differences. And then you said the NSF was evidence against SJ association, which is either wrong or weak evidence since they fund related research all the time.
The might have crucified Summers but they led him rise to be president at Harvard in the first place and didn’t seem to successfully taught him not to say things like that.
Cornell West has professor for religion and then professor for African-American Studies. As far as my instincts go I wouldn’t expect the same thing from Harvard department of psychology than I would expect from the department of African-American Studies.
I didn’t. I took your post as saying that I should update in the direction of him being part of the social justice movement based on his funding source and wanted to reject updating based on that information in that direction.