Steven Pinker

@sapinker

Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

Boston, MA

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Steven Pinker
@sapinker
Aug 16
The Jason Arday scandal/fiasco/tragedy is a prime example of "pluralistic ignorance." No sapient being could believe his ziggurat of whoppers, but each may have privately thought that everyone else believed them. This happens when the expression of an idea is stigmatized or
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power,...
From amazon.com
Steven Pinker
@sapinker
8h
Jason Arday and What’s Wrong With DEI, by my Harvard colleague Roland Fryer wsj.com/opinion/jason-… via @WSJopinion
Opinion | Jason Arday and What’s Wrong With DEI
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker
8h
Dolly Parton: Science Icon - Nautilus
Dolly Parton: Science Icon - Nautilus
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker
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Which diet is right for you? Wrong question. Take a quiz on diet, based on the work of my colleague, the evolutionary anthropologist Dan Lieberman, as presented in this new book Fed Up.
Which diet is right for you? Wrong question. — Harvard Gazette
From news.harvard.edu
Steven Pinker
@sapinker
10h
"To be published soon—and banned [by the academic left] in a classroom near you!" @mboudry's defense of...liberalism.
Maarten Boudry
@mboudry
11h
My former philosophy department at @ugent banned the teaching of this paper by Anomaly & Faria, in a philosophy class by my colleague Bouke De Vries. Why? Because it discusses demography and migration as potential threats to liberal societies, and something called “biocultural