Gender studies. Made up BS
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Hmmm
Gender studies has been based on this guys books for decades
https://quillette.com/2019/09/17/i-basically-just-...
I Basically Just Made It Up’: Confessions of a Social Constructionist
The problem is: I was wrong. Or, to be a bit more accurate, I got things partly right. But then, for the rest, I basically just made it up.
In my defence, I wasn’t alone. Everyone was (and is) making it up. That’s how the gender-studies field works.
To reiterate: The problem was, and is, that I was making it all up. These were educated guesses I was offering. They were hypotheses. Maybe I was right. But neither I, nor anyone else, ever thought to scrutinize what I wrote. What that older scholar told me could apply to thousands of other papers and books: The middle is fine, but the parts at either end are dodgy.
My flawed reasoning, and other scholarship using the same defective thinking, now is being taken up by activists and governments to legislate a new moral code of conduct. It was one thing when I was having drinks with fellow grad students and battling it out in the inconsequential world of our own egos. But now much more is at stake. I wish I could say that the scholarship has become better—the rules of evidence and peer review more demanding. But the reality is that the current almost total acceptance of social constructivism in certain circles seems more the result of demographic change within the academy, with certain viewpoints coming to dominate even more than in my grad-school heyday.
Gender studies has been based on this guys books for decades
https://quillette.com/2019/09/17/i-basically-just-...
I Basically Just Made It Up’: Confessions of a Social Constructionist
The problem is: I was wrong. Or, to be a bit more accurate, I got things partly right. But then, for the rest, I basically just made it up.
In my defence, I wasn’t alone. Everyone was (and is) making it up. That’s how the gender-studies field works.
To reiterate: The problem was, and is, that I was making it all up. These were educated guesses I was offering. They were hypotheses. Maybe I was right. But neither I, nor anyone else, ever thought to scrutinize what I wrote. What that older scholar told me could apply to thousands of other papers and books: The middle is fine, but the parts at either end are dodgy.
My flawed reasoning, and other scholarship using the same defective thinking, now is being taken up by activists and governments to legislate a new moral code of conduct. It was one thing when I was having drinks with fellow grad students and battling it out in the inconsequential world of our own egos. But now much more is at stake. I wish I could say that the scholarship has become better—the rules of evidence and peer review more demanding. But the reality is that the current almost total acceptance of social constructivism in certain circles seems more the result of demographic change within the academy, with certain viewpoints coming to dominate even more than in my grad-school heyday.
.closely linked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
its hilarious...
a bit more on it
https://psmag.com/education/a-philosophers-hoax-em...
what most of us expected all along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
its hilarious...
a bit more on it
https://psmag.com/education/a-philosophers-hoax-em...
what most of us expected all along
[quote=Pesty]Hmmm
Gender studies has been based on this guys books for decades
https://quillette.com/2019/09/17/i-basically-just-...
Can you explain how much of what students learn is based on his writings? That's an open question, I've no idea myself since I've never studied the topic.
Gender studies has been based on this guys books for decades
https://quillette.com/2019/09/17/i-basically-just-...
Can you explain how much of what students learn is based on his writings? That's an open question, I've no idea myself since I've never studied the topic.
bucksmanuk said:
closely linked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
its hilarious...
a bit more on it
https://psmag.com/education/a-philosophers-hoax-em...
what most of us expected all along
Listening now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
its hilarious...
a bit more on it
https://psmag.com/education/a-philosophers-hoax-em...
what most of us expected all along
Yeah I’ve read about those guys before. Staggering really. Showed how false the peer review system is.
I've listen to a couple of podcasts with two chaps who entered in ridiculous papers for peer review. Some got through and some didn't...if I can find the podcasts I'll link them but in the meantime he's the first article I found when I searched for them...
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17951492/grievance-...
Ah! Beaten to it from above
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17951492/grievance-...
Ah! Beaten to it from above
Edited by hondafanatic on Thursday 19th September 12:17
Pesty said:
Gender studies has been based on this guys books for decades
Hardly. In terms of citations, mentions on Google Ngrams, appearances on Google, Amazon ranking, mentions on Twitter, he is not even a rounding error compared to de Beauvoir or even Greer. Plus his main book is not decades old.People with more relevance for the many Pistonheaders who will be fascinated by gender studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies
montecristo said:
Hardly. In terms of citations, mentions on Google Ngrams, appearances on Google, Amazon ranking, mentions on Twitter, he is not even a rounding error compared to de Beauvoir or even Greer. Plus his main book is not decades old.
People with more relevance for the many Pistonheaders who will be fascinated by gender studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies
Yes ok a decade. his first book was 2007 People with more relevance for the many Pistonheaders who will be fascinated by gender studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies
He says this
The book didn’t win any awards, but it seems to have become one of those books scholars sometimes cite whenever they want to write about the history of masculinity. Look, they’ll say, someone else wrote about this: That Canadian fellow Dummitt did way back in 2007. (Google Scholar tells me it has been cited 112 times as of July, 2019. That isn’t much. But Canadian history is a small field and citations numbers are usually quite low for everyone.) These days, masculinity—especially of the “toxic” variety—is a hot subject. But at the time, there were few books written about masculinity in Canada, and so mine got more than its share of attention.
So they’ve been citing it.
He’s making it and claims everybody else is too.
His book is out there. Students read it, professors cite it.
Students go out into the world spouting made up BS and build on it.
Pesty said:
montecristo said:
Hardly. In terms of citations, mentions on Google Ngrams, appearances on Google, Amazon ranking, mentions on Twitter, he is not even a rounding error compared to de Beauvoir or even Greer. Plus his main book is not decades old.
People with more relevance for the many Pistonheaders who will be fascinated by gender studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies
Yes ok a decade. his first book was 2007 People with more relevance for the many Pistonheaders who will be fascinated by gender studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies
He says this
The book didn’t win any awards, but it seems to have become one of those books scholars sometimes cite whenever they want to write about the history of masculinity. Look, they’ll say, someone else wrote about this: That Canadian fellow Dummitt did way back in 2007. (Google Scholar tells me it has been cited 112 times as of July, 2019. That isn’t much. But Canadian history is a small field and citations numbers are usually quite low for everyone.) These days, masculinity—especially of the “toxic” variety—is a hot subject. But at the time, there were few books written about masculinity in Canada, and so mine got more than its share of attention.
So they’ve been citing it.
He’s making it and claims everybody else is too.
It's all made up - cogito, ergo sum
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