New article in Pacific Standard
Angela Chen’s Pacific Standard piece on the BBS paper hits a neglected point: Big Five openness items track urban taste more than a culture-free trait.
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Heterodox Academy
Heterodox Academy launches against one-ideology academia. Social science needs non-leftists and apolitical scientists so review can catch embedded values.
Read Article →Scientific American column on Duarte et al
Valdesolo covers the BBS paper well. Openness and RWA scales encode urban-left taste; conservatives rarely endorse the cartoon items treated as “high.”
Read Article →Thoughts on Gelman comment
Political homogeneity threatens social-science validity because ideologies smuggle human-nature assumptions into measures. Diversity is an epistemic tool.
Read Article →37.5%
Inbar and Lammers: 37.5% of social psychologists would discriminate against conservative job candidates. On committees that rate is likely career-ending.
Read Article →New Yorker article
Konnikova’s New Yorker piece frames the BBS paper as anti-Republican bias. The deeper problem is one academic subculture’s assumptions in methods.
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