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Thread #144424   Message #3340009
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
18-Apr-12 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unconscious prejudices - Harvard study
Subject: RE: BS: Unconscious prejudices - Harvard study
I do not think that social science is horse shit and has no value.

I did the test three times and three times is started of when I was freshest, pair "Good" words with the thing I was supposed to biased in favor of. When I go to matching "Good" with other things, Asians and gays for example I was tired and slowed down. Even so, I scored as slightly biased in both cases.

What I think is horse shit is pairing "good" of "bad" words with stereotypes that are know to engender bias in the first place. That just reinforces the stereotypes in those who believe in them and irritates those who do not.

Its just smoke and mirrors pretending to be scientific.

God bless the ingenuity of the person who wrote the grant for this silly, silly project.