Studies Say This About Progressives....

[PoliticalChic]

The precis of this thread is that the danger to society is in the control of higher education by the Left.

Here's why:

8. One of the uses of the public fisc, the funds collected by the federal government via taxation (the government doesn't actually earn any money, merely collects it....) is to fund research in our universities.....

"Academic Research Underlying Industrial Innovations: Sources, Characteristics, and Financing" The Review of Economics and Statistics
• Vol. 77, No. 1, Feb., 1995

The corruption, the censoring, the limiting of these function by Liberals/Progressives who have a strangle hold on said venues, is dangerous to the society, at best.....
....and criminally traitorous, at worst.



9. When academic 'research' "...is in thrall to a political program like progressivism, realities cease to matter for many in the field. The goal becomes to close ranks to defend their thesis against reality.

And politicians depend on social scientists for public policy advice. Ominously, traditional families’ resistance to the policy changes fueled by such studies attracts hostility precisely when those families are more successful than others." MercatorNet: All sides agree: progressive politics is strangling social sciences

 

[PoliticalChic]

"....a problem that has long been noted in psychology: nearly everyone in the field is on the left, politically. We have been working together since 2011 to write a paper explaining how this situation came about, how it reduces the quality of science published in social psychology, and what can be done to improve the science. (Note that none of us self-identifies as conservative.) In the process we discovered the work of the other scholars in other fields who joined with us to create this site.

.....the value of diversity – particularly diversity of viewpoints – for enhancing creativity, discovery, and problem solving. But one key type of viewpoint diversity is lacking in academic psychology in general and social psychology in particular: political diversity."
It’s finally out–The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology





I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Liberals, Progressives, and Democrat voters who have contributed to this thread....

....and helped prove exactly what this paper, from the Heterodox Academy, states: they are unequipped to offer any substantive posts due to their immersion in one simple, erroneous political philosophy.

 

[PoliticalChic]

What sort of research is hidden by Progressives/Liberals in the universities?\

The sort of research that proves conservative/traditional life styles are the most successful and most efficacious.


This:

10. "...University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus, whose 2012 “New Family Structures Study,” showed different outcomes in the lives of children raised by a parent who has same-sex relationships and those raised by their married, biological parents [IBFs].

... the NFSS has been acknowledged by critics to be “better situated than virtually all previous studies to detect differences between these groups in the population.”
On criminal outcomes, the children of GFs [gay fathers] showed the greatest propensity to be involved in crime. They were, on average, more frequently arrested and pled guilty to more non-minor offenses than the young-adult children in any other category.



The children of LMs [lesbian mothers] reported the second highest frequency of involvement in crimes and arrests, and in both categories the young-adult children of intact biological families reported the lowest frequency of involvement in crimes or arrests.

The children raised in lesbian mother households were more often sexually victimized, rather than less, as often claimed:

In percentages, 31% of LMs said they had been forced to have sex, compared with 25% of GFs and 8% of IBFs. These results are generally consistent with research on heterosexual families. For instance, a recent federal report showed that children in heterosexual families are least likely to be sexually, physically, or emotionally abused in an intact, biological, married family.



The statistical conclusion:
..., there were statistically significant differences between children from IBFs and those of LMs in many areas that are unambiguously suboptimal. On 11 out of 40 outcomes, there were statistically significant differences between children from IBFs and those who reported having a GF in many areas that are suboptimal.

... many [social scientists] had begun claiming that there were no important differences between gay parenting and traditional intact biological families. Some even argued for an advantage in gay parenting. But Regnerus’s careful study, including interviews with 3000 adult children among the 15,000 screened, could not support the needed claims, the way smaller, less careful studies did.

But such findings as these as these, however accurate, are simply not culturally acceptable ..."
MercatorNet: How did UTexas sociologist Mark Regnerus get to be so hated?




For Liberals/Progressives.....'reality be damned, facts be ignored......my political view is all that counts.'


This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S.Eliiot

 

[BlindBoo]

It all boils down to the individual and their own bull shit filter, don't you think?

The same arguments can be made for the pseudo-conned as well.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The thread premise boils down to a straw man fallacy.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It all boils down to the individual and their own bull shit filter, don't you think?

The same arguments can be made for the pseudo-conned as well.

1. I don't use language like that....I'm not a Liberal

2. "The same arguments can be made for the pseudo-conned as well."
If you are trying to say the same iniquities can be shown to be in the conservative precinct....
....clearly, you couldn't be more wrong.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The thread premise boils down to a straw man fallacy.

I don't know what it is that makes you such a dunce...but it works perfectly.


Let's just agree that you are never.....never....able to assemble a counter argument to my posts, and leave it at that.

Readers can conjecture why you lack that ability.

 

[BlindBoo]

It all boils down to the individual and their own bull shit filter, don't you think?

The same arguments can be made for the pseudo-conned as well.

1. I don't use language like that....I'm not a Liberal

2. "The same arguments can be made for the pseudo-conned as well."
If you are trying to say the same iniquities can be shown to be in the conservative precinct....
....clearly, you couldn't be more wrong.

I don't care what language you use. Lying is lying and that's often worse than any word use.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It all boils down to the individual and their own bull shit filter, don't you think?

The same arguments can be made for the pseudo-conned as well.

1. I don't use language like that....I'm not a Liberal

2. "The same arguments can be made for the pseudo-conned as well."
If you are trying to say the same iniquities can be shown to be in the conservative precinct....
....clearly, you couldn't be more wrong.

I don't care what language you use. Lying is lying and that's often worse than any word use.

I challenged you to provide any proof that the same iniquities of the Fascist/Left can be shown to be in the conservative precinct....


....of course, you failed.....as you do with metronomic regularity.


Hence, your attempt serves as proof that....as usual....I am 100% accurate, correct and undeniable.


You've served your purpose.

Dismissed.

 

[BlindBoo]

I challenged you to provide any proof that the same

IMHO, You have been found to be a liar and a cut-n-paste fraud. Quite like the Black Knight



One need not read past your opening salvo. "When Liberals/Progressives hear the words ‘ studies show,’ or ‘experts say,’ they cease to ‘question authority.’"

Farcical on it's face.

 

[Uncensored2008]

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Conservatives aren't completely irrelevant yet, but they're getting there.

The pendulum swings Comrade. You are so sure that yours is a thousand year reich, but time will show differently. You Communists were supposedly ended in 1988 - now you think you are invincible.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The thread premise boils down to a straw man fallacy.

Your whole life boils down to a delusion of competence, C_Coward.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I challenged you to provide any proof that the same

IMHO, You have been found to be a liar and a cut-n-paste fraud. Quite like the Black Knight



One need not read past your opening salvo. "When Liberals/Progressives hear the words ‘ studies show,’ or ‘experts say,’ they cease to ‘question authority.’"

Farcical on it's face.

1. "IMHO, You have been found to be a liar..."
Yet you are unable to provide a single example of same?
You must be a Liberal, stung by the truths I provide.

2. "One need not read past your opening..."
We both know you're lying....you read the entire post....and it left you grinding your teeth.
You'd love to deny the fact......but, you can't.

3. Why, pray tell, are you Liberals never about to assemble a substantive rebuttal to my posts????
Government schooling?
The result of indoctrination rather than education?
Fear of admitting the flaws and fallacies of Liberalsm?
Congenital disabilities????
Which one?

 

[PoliticalChic]

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Conservatives aren't completely irrelevant yet, but they're getting there.

The pendulum swings Comrade. You are so sure that yours is a thousand year reich, but time will show differently. You Communists were supposedly ended in 1988 - now you think you are invincible.

"You are so sure that yours is a thousand year reich,"

Yes, indeed!!!


Some time ago, I read the biography of Hiroo Onoda....the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungles of the Philippines for 30 years after the war ended....refusing to believe that the emperor wasn't god, and had surrendered.

These Liberals/Progressives/Democrats have watched their demigod crumble for lo these seven years of his presidency....
....one failure and lie after another....yet continue to Hiroo Onoda their posts.


They bear the same characteristics, sniping at reality, at knowledge, at experience.....
.....and will for 30 more years.



If you consider the lies they still put forth about Franklin Roosevelt....that's double the Hiroo Onoda debacle.

 

[P@triot]

I've been saying for the past five years or so that the left has morphed into full-on fascism. If everyone doesn't Nazi goose-step in perfect synchronization with everything they desire, those people are viciously attacked.

With each passing day, the left has become more unhinged, more radicalized, and more disgusting. The good news is that it's pushing rational people to conservatism. Even Ronald Reagan couldn't create the Tea Party. But Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid sure did!

 

[OnePercenter]

6. Academia hides research results that support conservative and traditional doctrines. They can do this, because Liberals/Progressives are in charge.

Why is academia so infused.....infected.....with Liberals?


"Academic feminists who received tenure, promotion, and funding, tended to be pro-abortion, pro-pornography (anti-censorship), pro-prostitution (pro-sex workers), pro-surrogacy, and anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, and anti-American…proponents of simplistic gender-neutrality (women and men are exactly the same) or essentialist: men and women are completely different, and women are better.


They are loyal to their careers and their cliques, not to the truth. [In their writing, they] have pretended that brilliance and originality can best be conveyed in a secret, Mandarin language that absolutely no one, including themselves, can possibly understand…and this obfuscation of language has been employed to hide a considerable lack of brilliance and originality and to avoid the consequences of making oneself clear."

“The Death of Feminism,” by Phyllis Chesler



Get it? Liberals 'blacklist ' conservatives, traditionalists, etc., from making a living in academia......just as communists did in Hollywood well before the anti-communist blacklist that is claimed by Liberals; communist Dalton Trumbo bragged about doing so.

There are more liberals in education because conservatives don't give a shit about educating others as a career.

They don't want to pay for education that others paid for them.

Spoken like a true government school grad.

What is your point?

 

[P@triot]

There are more liberals in education because conservatives don't give a shit about educating others as a career.

There are more progressives in education because progressives can't hack it in the real world and they know it. They want the cush government job where they work 5 hours per day for only 6 months out of the year. Where they get two weeks off at Christmas, three days off at Thanksgiving, a week off a Easter, all while people in the real world are grinding away 8 to 10 to 12 hours per day including around all of those holidays.

Progressive go into education for the same reason they do everything - they are f''ing lazy as hell.

 

[Granny]

Studies of the facts show that conservation is dying a slow, hideous death.

Well, conservation IS slowly dying for the small family farmers anyway.

 

[westwall]

When Liberals/Progressives hear the words ‘ studies show,’ or ‘experts say,’ they cease to ‘question authority.’ Hence the appellation…'Lock-Step Liberals'

But there is a dark side....a darker side...that leads from that reputation.....it bodes the end of Western Civilization.



1. " All sides agree: progressive politics is strangling social sciences" MercatorNet: All sides agree: progressive politics is strangling social sciences
Real advances are stymied by the strangle hold that Progressives have on academia.


2." If you thought that the progressive bias in social sciences was considered a problem only by tradition-minded folk, you might be surprised to hear the views of celebrity skeptic, Michael Shermer in Scientific American earlier this year:

A 2015 study by psychologist José Duarte, then at Arizona State University, and his colleagues in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, entitled “Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science,” found that 58 to 66 percent of social scientists are liberal and only 5 to 8 percent conservative and that there are eight Democrats for every Republican.
How does this political asymmetry corrupt social science? It begins with what subjects are studied and the descriptive language employed.

Duarte et al. find similar distortive language across the social sciences, where, for instance, certain words are used to suggest pernicious motives when confronting contradictory evidence—“deny,” “legitimize,” “rationalize,” “justify,” “defend,” “trivialize”—with conservatives as examples, as if liberals are always objective and rational." Ibid.




3. If our Liberal/Progressive/Democrat voters where bright enough, they would have caught on to the scam long go....
...as conservative/traditional observers have.

4. But hold on! Some Liberals not only caught on....but have the honesty to declaim it!
" As Jesse Singal puts it at New York magazine, discussing a liberal critique, Alice Dreger’s Galileo’s Middle Finger,
If activists—any activists, regardless of their political orientation or the rightness of their cause—get to decide by fiat what is and isn’t an acceptable interpretation of the world, then science is pointless, and we should just throw the whole damn thing out." Ibid.




Just as I said.....Liberals/Progressives presage the end of our civilization.

Remember in the 1960's when the mantra was "QUESTION AUTHORITY!". Now, the progressive dingbats' mantra is "DON'T QUESTION AUTHORITY!". Like the good little Nazi's they are!

 

[SuperDemocrat]

When Liberals/Progressives hear the words ‘ studies show,’ or ‘experts say,’ they cease to ‘question authority.’ Hence the appellation…'Lock-Step Liberals'

But there is a dark side....a darker side...that leads from that reputation.....it bodes the end of Western Civilization.



1. " All sides agree: progressive politics is strangling social sciences" MercatorNet: All sides agree: progressive politics is strangling social sciences
Real advances are stymied by the strangle hold that Progressives have on academia.


2." If you thought that the progressive bias in social sciences was considered a problem only by tradition-minded folk, you might be surprised to hear the views of celebrity skeptic, Michael Shermer in Scientific American earlier this year:

A 2015 study by psychologist José Duarte, then at Arizona State University, and his colleagues in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, entitled “Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science,” found that 58 to 66 percent of social scientists are liberal and only 5 to 8 percent conservative and that there are eight Democrats for every Republican.
How does this political asymmetry corrupt social science? It begins with what subjects are studied and the descriptive language employed.

Duarte et al. find similar distortive language across the social sciences, where, for instance, certain words are used to suggest pernicious motives when confronting contradictory evidence—“deny,” “legitimize,” “rationalize,” “justify,” “defend,” “trivialize”—with conservatives as examples, as if liberals are always objective and rational." Ibid.




3. If our Liberal/Progressive/Democrat voters where bright enough, they would have caught on to the scam long go....
...as conservative/traditional observers have.

4. But hold on! Some Liberals not only caught on....but have the honesty to declaim it!
" As Jesse Singal puts it at New York magazine, discussing a liberal critique, Alice Dreger’s Galileo’s Middle Finger,
If activists—any activists, regardless of their political orientation or the rightness of their cause—get to decide by fiat what is and isn’t an acceptable interpretation of the world, then science is pointless, and we should just throw the whole damn thing out." Ibid.




Just as I said.....Liberals/Progressives presage the end of our civilization.

I've notice similar things such as when you disgagree with people in the social science departments. They automatically find that your motives were 'racist', 'sexist', or just about any derogatory term. This is why people don't disagree with these people because they are so damn afraid of being likened to the most evil human beings in the world.