Thoughts on Gelman comment
Political homogeneity threatens social-science validity because ideologies smuggle human-nature assumptions into measures. Diversity is an epistemic tool.
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I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my perceived political views: reflections of a sellout; how diversity would strengthen social science (Updated)
A PhD program rejected the author after a Jimmy Carter critique. Viewpoint discrimination harms validity; social science needs heterodox voices.
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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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