Тред. Коллективное поведение. ⬇️
1. В природе мы находим множество изящных узоров и завораживающих движений. Одной из полезнейших и удивительных способностей мозга является распознавание паттернов. Оно позволяет нам восхищаться красотой и извлекать информацию из паттернов.
Хотел написать, что в Швейцарии тоже бардак, как везде, потому что троллейбус в Лозанне отставал от расписания на две минуты. Пока писал это, он нагнал, и я приехал вовремя!
23% of GDP in #OECD and EU countries is spent on social protection, and the bill is set to rise.
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Good news! We have reached the equity.
A warning: Gender equity in STEM is not necessarily a self-sustaining outcome. It has required significant institutional interventions, and abandoning effective measures could put some of the progress at risk.
The Truth About Sexism in Science
“Their overall conclusion is that the evidence simply doesn’t support claims of pervasive anti-female bias in science. In fact, in some domains, it’s now men who face discrimination.”
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If we think why this happened (left-skewed social sciences and humanities), we may find that conservatives prefer making money to doing science. Those who do science are just not good enough. Should we reserve DEI quotas for inept academics? 🤔
"Steven Pinker: Why we pretend everyone is equal | Rak höger"
Me:
I think there is hope, and I think we may have just, just passed peak woke, although there were rather extreme manifestations of that in 2020 and 2021 after the George Floyd killing. It’s still a serious problem, and it’s got to be, simply because professors in the United States have tenure, and so they’re in their positions until they die or retire.
Ivar Arpi (@Ivarpi):
Or capital punishment.
Me:
Or capital punishment, yes.
So it turns over very slowly, and I think that the problem is that, in most universities, especially in the social sciences and humanities, there is a political monoculture on the left and an absence of political diversity. This is not a problem just in being unrepresentative, because there’s nothing that says that a university has to match the demographics of the society. But the problem is that, when there are legitimate hypotheses within a field that tend to be correlated with political ideology—and there are plenty of them—certain hypotheses just don’t get voiced, don’t get thought, don’t get taught. Certain criticisms never get made simply because everyone thinks the same way.
@jeapvz@nikolaushaufler I doubt a direct correlation can be established. There are plenty of confounding factors. Cities are more polluted but impose urban life style. Some countries (India) are more polluted but still poor and traditional. Health is affected by pollution but effect can't be singled out
@_justjoined Это всегда ведёт к речам о национальном превосходстве россиян. В других странах я такого не замечал (не факт, что этого нет), но в России — всегда и много. Спорт очень политизирован.
@_justjoined Допуск будет убеждать российское руководство и публику во всеобщей продажности, двойных стандартах, и собственной безнаказанности, в том что любые преступления им сойдут с рук. Это даст им лишний повод унижать украинцев и остальных спортсменов. Это очень заметно.