Reply #82: I'll Say That Pinker Is Wrong [View All]

[ProfessorGAC]

I'm in that environment and he is establishing nothing about it.

There is no such heavy political bias. As a matter of fact, there is high tendency toward liberterianism in economics, science, mathematics. Liberalism is high in sociolgical areas as well as "liberal arts", and conservatism is high in business and accounting fields. So, where's the bias?

There may be a natural intellectual correlation between education, IQ and sociopolitical persuasion. But, there is no causative link to the formation of an agenda, de facto or otherwise. There is no credible scientific study that has ever shown that there is anything other than a sociological tendency for highly educated people to be more liberal. That's not an agenda. It's just a generalized tendency.

Pinker also appears as guilty as are you, of making bold assertions without any supportive data or any reveleation of his analytical methodology. That's pretty darned convenient.

Lastly, the whole idea of biological predisposition to certain philosophical "constructs" and the relation of those to societal absolutes is wholly unproven and completely speculative. So, the guy writes a book on a subject that isn't proven, can't be proven, and is arguably unsupportable, even anecdotally, is your basis for this conjecture, and i'm supposed to roll over? I don't think so.
The Professor