[harry8]

>> I don't think it matters if this criticism is right or not.

> Okay, you and I care about very different things.

Clearly it is being suggested that it doesn't matter with respect to the social studies departments being in dire need of drastic reform. If you don't care about that either direction why are you commenting on this thread? You do actually care one way and you're "point scoring" to further the argument? Something else? I'm misreading something that I think I'm reading clearly?

[TameAntelope]

Hm? I just think it matters if the letter (the original submission) is correct or not.

[harry8]

So are social studies departments and funding in dire need of reform in your opinion? How does the "correctness" in your view of the original submission affect that need or non-need?

[TameAntelope]

Not sure I know enough to have an opinion about that; what I've been commenting about is the "nudge is dead" attitude that I don't think is warranted.

[harry8]

and yet here you are responding in a thread with the conclusion clearly stated:

>means it’s past time to reform a large chunk of academia.

And you're taking exception to it, but now just claiming you're actually not, that these one sentence "you're wrong" responses are really something much more modest.

Out of interest do you work in the field? Have ties as a graduate to one of the departments? Or are you completely disinterested when assessing the research?

If I have an interest it's that quality research is performed that advances human knowledge with some kind of efficiency of the resources spend. ie fund something that is being done properly and well to some effect over something that has been shown to be run by those who seem to be utterly incompetent or fraudulent shysters or something else that engenders zero confidence.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cass+sunstein+site%3Astatmod...

[unityByFreedom]

> past time to reform a large chunk of academia

>> And you're taking exception to it

TameAntelope was addressing premises to that conclusionary comment.

If the premises do not hold, then TameAntelope does not need to address that conclusion.

[harry8]

>If the premises do not hold

But they do tho'

/tips hat to TameAntelope's style

[TameAntelope]

I think you’re on the wrong comment chain, friend…

[harry8]

Hey that's just what I said to you! Great minds etc.

Hitch your wagon to Cass Sustein et. al. by all means... Famously successful and successfully famous. What else do you need to know? ESP might be a thing too, nobody has proved it isn't. But we have shut down the research departments at universities involved in that BS...

https://www.google.com/search?q=cass+sunstein+site%3Astatmod...