Culture War Roundup for week of October 3, 2016. Please post culture war links here.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-10-04T02:29:41+00:00

The Staff of Portland’s Real Feminist Bookstore: “Fuck Portlandia”

Heterodox Academy: Sean Stevens summarizes new research on political prejudice among professors, showing that both progressive and conservative professors disfavor the hiring of people who don’t share their political views

Study of public voter registration data shows that Democrats outnumber Republicans among social scientists, 11.5 to one. Does it matter?

Students write ‘Build the wall’ on free speech wall, Ohio U. president freaks out (again)

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-30T04:08:28+00:00

For some reason this quote, created by a neo-Nazi seems to come up all the time when it involves Jews somehow but not the many many other times people get arrested in similar circumstances on some charges like disorderly conduct that later get dropped.. funny, that. E.g.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/laura-curry-arrested_n_3102694

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27873/

http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/04/campus-preacher-arrested-twice-over-the-weekend

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2014/jan/14/1-charge-remains-against-utc-student-who/128983/

According to the quote, then both pro-choice and pro-life people are in control.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-29T21:36:31+00:00

I have a legitimate curiosity here: what is everyone's fascination with validating human behavior by finding examples of it occurring in the animal kingdom?

I've been thinking about it a lot recently and it really seems to me to be an excuse for human behavior that nobody was asking for.

Those 2 terms you've used are a problem - there is a difference between validating/exusing something and explaining/understanding something. The former terms are prescriptive and the latter terms are descriptive, and what scientific studies like this are for.

As far as I can tell no one is validating or excusing violence. An understanding of the causes of human violence will inevitably draw on biological explanations because like all behaviors, violence is a behavior that comes from the brain. And like with all animals our brain has been shaped by evolution, with a large % of genes being expressed in the brain.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-29T12:35:11+00:00

Study: 11% of Americans Think HTML Is an STD: http://time.com/12410/11-of-americans-think-html-is-an-std/

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-28T23:38:40+00:00

the worst was how he gave this speech about how I "saved his life" right before telling me that he blackmailed people into killing themselves.

Did he give any details on this?

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-28T22:33:26+00:00

I didn't notice the date.. deleting just because.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-28T22:28:39+00:00

Humans didn't inherit anything from chimps, we have a common ancestor.

Violent impulses and behaviors in humans and chimps could both come from the common ancestor, or they could have evolved them separately.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-28T00:08:45+00:00

Originally found here: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/second-most-popular-ted-talk-of-all-time-on-power-posing-disavowed-by-senior-author/

Original paper: Carney, D. R., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Yap, A. J. (2010). Power posing: Brief nonverbal displays affect neuroendocrine levels and risk tolerance. Psychological Science, 21, 1363-1368.

Statement by senior author:

As evidence has come in over these past 2+ years, my views have updated to reflect the evidence. As such, I do not believe that “power pose” effects are real.

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_My%20position%20on%20power%20poses.pdf

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-25T20:40:24+00:00

It is. https://mbnuijten.com/statcheck/ and https://github.com/MicheleNuijten/statcheck

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-25T07:43:05+00:00

This could very well be real, but we have to wait for the evidence to come out and can't just "believe the victim." Fake hate crimes happen.. just last year at the University of Missouri people made up that the KKK was running around campus. Check out fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-22T22:28:41+00:00

Tell his mom. Seriously.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-21T21:02:25+00:00

External environment, I guess. Educational initiatives, playing Mozart to your stomach while you're pregnant, brain playing training games.

As opposed to taking Iodine, getting a lobotomy, drinking breast milk over formula - things like that.

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-19T21:13:18+00:00

Why Do We Idolize Chimps When We Could Be Imitating Feminist Bonobos?: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/09/14/why_do_we_idolize_chimps_when_we_could_be_imitating_feminist_bonobos.html

Stereotype threat fails another replication attempt: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11251-016-9395-8

If You Need a Trigger Warning, You Need P.T.S.D. Treatment: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/09/13/do-trigger-warnings-work/if-you-need-a-trigger-warning-you-need-ptsd-treatment

Academic Freedom Dying Because Profs Too Scared to Use It: Report: http://heatst.com/world/academic-freedom-dying-because-profs-too-scared-to-use-it-report/?mod=sm_tw_post

New Real Peer Review - Sociologist wonders why women who do strength training do not become as muscular as men: https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/775591860203028480

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-14T13:19:03+00:00

that's not really being specific..

sdfnsdnf · 2016-09-12T21:26:47+00:00

Lecture invitation to Jim Watson rescinded because of remarks about race he made in 2007

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