#Attitudes

Bad survey design and how words work (brought to you by @NatCen)The British Social Attitudes survey is an annual survey of about 3,000 people it asks people hundreds of questions
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Okey doke artichoke. This article from the Telegraph is pure culture wars bullshit. What they are proposing is traditionally called History of Science, and is taught everywhere. Assessment of historical
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Please follow this thread. BLM states that it wants to abolish the nuclear family, police, prisons and capitalism. BLM leaders have threatened to "burn down the system" if their demands
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I know I said I was going to stop participating in Mormon twitter, but I do want to say one thing... There is an ever-growing ideological faction of folks within
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y’all made this era very un-fun fr like as always took everything too far and to extremes and we need to unpack y’all taking the “let’s move like btspoppers” way
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•Important Thread•I did some more research on the importance of -ions in the air and found some interesting stuff[they] want you to wear a mask and stay indoors so you
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OK, I'm going to have a short thread on racism despite being white & thus incur the wrath and dismissal of a certain kind of anti-racist who works on standpoint
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Few female artistA thread http://ticiavalcer.com/2020/10/16/few-female-artist/ Why are there fewer female artists? I think there are few female artists because few understand and realize what it means to take art seriously.
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the past 15 years has seen the almost complete landlordization of media and technology--- itunes was an early pioneer, making people think it was a privilege to rent music in
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Some thoughts on Barriss Offee: A Thread This morning I was watching Weapons Factory (CW, S2, Ep6) and it made me notice some things about Barriss, her relationship with Luminara,
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Interesting to see the following two articles posted today, serving as an interesting juxtaposition and a reminder of why I think having a #WRYIMBY perspective is important. The first speaks
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Let's talk about the #Founders for a second, shall we? Yeah, this is sparked by Ben Shapiro's outrage that 39% of Black people would classify them as villains.Me? I don't.
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Your must-read today: @RottenInDenmark debunks the "39 sex-trafficked kids recovered from double-wide trailer in Georgia" story, which was almost entirely bullshit that the rest of the media credulously passed on.
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Thoughts based on my study: What’s happening with Covid-19 mobile apps in India now is the same kind of mess that happened with personal safety tech interventions 7 to 8
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So like, what is the official definition of homophobia? Google says it's discrimination against homosexuals, but the way most people use it makes me think Google is wrong. Oxford Learner's
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“The academic theorist fears the Black males represented in our present day, so it is easy to rationalize these phobias, which interpret Black men as patriarchal, violent, and indifferent to
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