For decades, conservatives promoted "scared straight" and "DARE" anti-drug programs and simply ignored the litany of studies showing they didn't work or even had negative effects. The wilful refusal to see the evidence on diversity training is the mirror-image on the left. https://t.co/SVG7XkZrKr
If you are a passionate advocate of sticking with the research when it supports your views but sort of quietly forget to look when it doesn't, you are not an advocate of evidence-based decision-making. You are an advocate of decision-based evidence-making.
" individuals who felt more threatened by COVID-19 used media more often to inform themselves (i.e., media volume), but focused on less different media channels (i.e., media breadth). Higher media volume was associated with higher perceived knowledge, but not with higher actual knowledge about COVID-19. Further, exploratory analyses revealed that perceived threat was linked to perceived knowledge, but not to actual knowledge. The association of perceived threat and perceived knowledge was mediated by increased media volume. Finally, a smaller media breadth was linked to higher perceived and actual knowledge."
"The insult is one Trump has levied roughly equally against men and women alike since becoming president, according to Factba.se, a data analytics company that tracks all of Trump’s public utterances. ... But the resonance of the adjective — the way the attack lands, the nuances in connotation — is often different when the recipient is a woman" Perhaps instead of criticizing Trump's misogyny they should instead be applauding his gender equality?
Less than two weeks after the article above what do you find? The US tech sector is now worth more than the entire European stock market, Bank of America says. I don't think the two are unrelated. I tend to look at Europe as a continent in a comfortable stagnation, dealing with things as they wish they'd be rather than things as they are, a policy that I expect will backfire in the end.
EDIT: Just stumbled back across this older link on the impacts of the EU's GDPR regulation. Worth reading, on the astronomical compliance costs with it, as well as, e.g., "venture capital invested in EU startups fell by as much as 50 percent due to GDPR implementation".
I think that a lot of contemporary activists who claim to be "anti-racist" would have to significantly improve in order for me to upgrade my view of them from mostly-a-disaster to a-waste-of-time-and-money.
Soyinka seems to regularly get described as concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it." Not exactly the most popular perspective in a lot of circles these days.
