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SocioGate I -- And Science?

12/13/2011

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Renowned social psychologist, Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, was proved to be a fraud. An investigative committee concluded that Stapel had falsified data in at least "several dozen" of the nearly 150 papers he had published in his extremely prolific career. (Continue reading…)

Just calling something a science does not make it so. Social science? Give me a break. To be a science, you have to create testable hypotheses (sometimes called falsifiable), and then verify that what they predict actually happens with enough regularity to be called a law, and researchers must be willing to revise their hypotheses when conflicting data arises. That is rare, if not impossible in the "social sciences". 

One severe flaw in the methodology used by Stapel in his experiment about racism and homophobia was that he did not do any double blind testing, nor did he reverse the race-roles. Why did he not put a single white man at the end of the rows of chairs, and recruit a bunch of black people to fill out the questionnaire? I suspect, doing that might run the risk of exposing crypto-racism and crypto-homophobia in blacks, thereby falsifying the hypothesis that only Caucasians have this problem. It would have made a better experiment though.
 
Can you imagine the catastrophe, had we approached the development of nuclear energy in the same way we approach the "social sciences" and "climate change"? Egad. Maybe, like the Climategate "scientists", Mr. Stapel thought he was supposed to falsify his experimental results. 
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CountryGal
12/13/2011 06:48:02 pm

I recognize that - you're talkin about the SCIENTIFIC METHOD, huh? Like, a system for verifying facts? Requiring proof? Novel idea in this day & age.

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Sea Dog
12/17/2011 10:00:35 am

Your excavator is OUTSTANDING – because it is so good you’ll get a lot of heat from the idiots, a true sign of your success.

I’ve seen all this unfold since I became aware in 1957. It started in Zoology 114 at University – geez we went through the whole thing. But using the scientific method we disproved all projection conclusions as un-provable. At the time we studied the scientific method that falsifies making projections on data that wasn’t actually accurate or misleading or complete or valid; and worst of all trying to make research prove a pre made conclusion.

That is the period when Social Studies people wanted to tap the Government’s Sputnik science education titles money – and they changed from Social Studies to SOCIAL SCIENCES! Nothing in the entire universe is as big a lie as the term “Social Sciences!” There is absolutely nothing scientific about Social Studies and their “survey method” of finding fact. Ten people saying the sun will fail to rise tomorrow has nothing to do with whether or not the sun rises on the morrow. Yet the “survey method” is their scientific method of finding fact. America’s worst generation bull-shitted themselves and the whole world!

In studies with Buckminster Fuller our group came to the conclusion that humans could not predict the future! Period! People have never been able to predict the future and never, ever will, no matter how many computers models they construct. Garbage in – Garbage out!

It is depressing to see so many stupid people – they deserve the reward they’ll get at the end of this yellow brick road: Poverty – famine - sickness – violence – unhappiness and a short life. Good riddance, they deserve it.

In my old age I now mark the decline and fall of our humanity. My satisfaction is that back in 1957 I did see the future and my satisfaction is to watch it play out as my life comes to a conclusion. As you know during the years I spoke out about the foolishness of it all to the little pigs a singing and dancing – and people mocked me – history proves me right with sore consolation. My sadness is for my children and grandchildren who will never experience the wonderful life I got to experience.

Good luck!

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