You may have heard of the study published in PNAS in 2020 concluding that Black newborns have higher survival rates when Black doctors attend to them. https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1913405117It got a huge amount of coverage in the popular press. It was even cited by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent last year on the court’s ruling against racial preferences in college admissions. The newborn research, Brown Jackson claimed, shows the benefits of diversity. “It saves lives,” she wrote. The same journal just published a reanalysis of the data. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409264121It turns out that the effect disappears once you take into account that Black doctors are less likely to see the higher-risk population of newborns that have low birth weight. It’s like what someone once said about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire: They’re both going through all the same moves, but Ginger Rogers is doing them backward and in high heels. A published finding that clashes with the political prejudices of reviewers and editors is a Ginger Rogers Finding. It had to be twice as good. Full details and more examples:https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/progressives-should-worry-more-about
>>16452584social sciences have astronomically less merit than people assume it has and for every study you find that shows X proves Y, there's inherently a million confounding variables that get shoved under the rug and undermined by the author's biases. Every branch of science is guilty of this, but the more applied the branch the more infested with assumptions it gets. The ideological capturing of academia has made this problem increasingly worse
>>16452584>drow clamberswhat did they mean by this?
>>16452584humans are fickle creatures who salivate at a good story. The western world has become so pampered that we must use such stories to create nonexistent problems against which to "fight the good fight">"Them doctors AREN'T racist?"that does not make for a good story. This article correction will never make the news and will quietly sink to obscurity or the slums of internet spaces like here. The west has fallen so far that a sitting US Supreme Court justice writes her opinions based on blatantly false information.
>>16452584this post feels a bit more monumentous compared to most of the other shit posted here, I hope it doesn't get buried>>16452846>a sitting US Supreme Court justice writes her opinions based on blatantly false informationthis is actually huge
>>16452584>lithera word almost no one has heard or used once in their lives
>>16452584that lame feminist mischaracterization could only come from someone who never watched any of their movies or knows the first thing about dancing. if you've seen any of the famous fred and ginger routines then you know that fred was doing all the heavy lifting between the duo all the big moves and he was moving backwards as often as she was and usually moving his feet twice as fast too. anyone who knows anything about dancing knows that dancing lead is always twice as difficult as following, thats why men lead and women follow
So are these media and courts and whatever be held liable for spreading fake news?
>>16454511Bezos seems like he is getting ready to hold his employees at least somewhat accountable. He is probably getting tired of them losing $100 million a year of his money.
>>16455186He is probably also smart enough to realize that if all of the old establishment newspapers are massively liberal and he has the sole conservative outlet then he is going to capture half of newspaper audience while the liberals will have to divide the other half amongst themselves.
>>16455186He doesn't think about the post as 'losing $100 million a year' He considers that he is spending $100 million a year to advertise his other businesses services to government officials, all of whom read the post every morning. Amazon has tens of billions of dollars worth of government contracts
