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Rob Sica
@robsica
"Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it." -Nietzsche
(@robsica.bsky.social)
Fort Collins
Born February 14
Joined July 2010
- "Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it." -@robkhenderson robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-male-war…
- "Relative to women, (a) men tend to be more strongly focused on romantic relationship formation, (b) men tend to benefit more from romantic relationship involvement, (c) men are less likely to initiate breakups, and (d) men tend to suffer more following relationship dissolution."
- "regardless of party or ideology, men are so much more tolerant than women that the gender tolerance gap dominates the ideology difference... these findings are consistent w/ decades of literature investigating political tolerance or support for censorship"
- The unexamined life is worth living.So what's everyone's most controversial philosophy take?
- "these findings arguably constitute the clearest and strongest kind of empirical support that we will find for the claim that studying philosophy makes students better thinkers"
- "In short, people have a mechanism in their minds. It stops them from saying something that could lower their status, even if it’s true. And it propels them to say something that could increase their status, even if it’s false." -@robkhenderson
- "Overall, when looking across cultures, reducing patriarchy doesn’t make these and most other psychological sex differences go away, it makes them *larger*. So much for blaming patriarchy and sex role socialization." -@PsychoSchmitt areomagazine.com/2017/06/30/wou…
- "feminist studies [FS] have increasingly prioritized ideological narratives over empirical inquiry... rather than serving as a neutral academic discipline, FS now functions predominantly as an advocacy platform – one better suited to political settings"
- "Evolutionary psychology has convincingly refuted the validity of the expectation that male and female workplace behavior should be the same." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- Currently $2.99 on Kindle. Imho, this book is absolutely essential for anyone seeking basic literacy in social science and psychology. I've read it at least 4X. (In a recent interview, Mercier indicated that Boyer has a forthcoming book on, I think, political extremism.)
- "rather than aiming to equalize sex ratios [...] we should strive to eliminate unjust impediments in STEM, then let the sex ratios set themselves as an emergent effect of individuals making informed decisions about what would suit them best"
- "accent is a stronger predictor of interpersonal judgment than either race or gender, or looks in ethnic categorization, making the impact of accents particularly powerful" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- "The best explanation is that you pick the beliefs that match your personality, then unconscious or semi-conscious mechanisms in your mind go and find rationalizations for them." -@FakeNousBlog fakenous.net/?p=2083
