Who is biased? On motivation and science
In the idealized science world, research is done for the sole purpose of finding truth, and doesn't have any ulterior motives for anything else. Papers are published without regards to…
Politics and citations in science
There are many ways that politics impact science. Many people are aware of the extreme measures taken by Soviet Russia (Lysenkoism) in order to make genetics fit with the party…
Wikipedia’s political bias demonstrated by sentiment analysis
The great David Rozado has a new study out on the politics of Wikipedia: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased?. He downloaded the English Wikipedia database, and analyzed whether the articles covering…
The politics of sociology
Consider the following quote: Sociology has recently been subject to a severe critique by Alvin Gouldner (1970), who has repeated and sought to document the charge that the theoretical orientations…
Hostile sexism is live and well, but mostly in favor of women
The feminist movement can be seen as a reaction of egalitarians against then prevailing views about women vs. men, that viewed men in a too favorable light for their tastes.…
Cui bono and science
There's a new bombshell paper out finding some very obvious findings: Zhang, F. J. (2023). Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11.…
Research credibility and group differences
Suppose you did some research that you want to publish. Say you investigated the difference between men on women on some number of traits that are relevant to your current…
New study on the effect of university education on political views in the UK
Someone sent me this new study that I hadn't included in my review from back in January: Scott, R. (2022). Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects…
Your job, their job, and politics
Most people know that political opinions are related to which job people are in. But which exactly? While there are many ways to quantify this, two teams looked at donations…
Tons of data on media bias in the USA
Wikipedia tells us: The Media Research Center (MRC) is an American politically conservative content analysis group based in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III.[2] It characterizes…