Month: August 2017
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Damore's Pseudoscientific Google manifesto is a better evidence for sexism than it is for intellectual sex differences
Pseudoscience is effective. If it weren’t, people wouldn’t generate so much of it to try to justify opinions not supported by the bulk of the evidence. It’s effective because people trust science as a method of understanding the world, and ideological actors want that trust conferred to their opinions. They want their opinions to carry…