[B]y its very existence, [mathematics] poses a serious threat to their entire world view that there is no such thing as objective truth and what they have to say on any subject is just as valid as what anyone else says. Imagine a baseball field with a ball resting on the ground. Two teams come […]
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As a history PhD, I’m used to hearing that I should have studied STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) instead. We humanities graduates often retort that our skills are underappreciated, but our arguments ring hollow in the face of a difficult job market. Facing this reality, ambitious students rapidly abandoned arts majors throughout the 2000s, […]
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“Anyone who looks through enough statistics will eventually find numbers that seem to confirm a given vision.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed In the ideological universe of moralistic warriors fighting against injustices operating on group characteristics, disparity always means discrimination, while correlation is definitely causation. The propensity for confirmation biases is so […]
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