Author Topic: So are universities just not getting the job done any more?  (Read 419 times)

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Offline SirJohn

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Exactly the type of immigrant Sir John claims to like.....     except...  he doesn’t like then either.

Read the cite. Does it say anything about immigration? No. So why are you talking about immigration?
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Offline Omni

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We're not talking about immigration. Are you guys just so fixated on immigration you can't stick to the subject under discussion?

Ah but wasn't it you who tried to flog the BS story that foreign students can't speak English and are a detriment to Canadian students? 

Offline cybercoma

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I don't care how foreign students do. I care about whether they're making it harder for Canadians.
They’re not. You have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about.

Offline Queefer Sutherland

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When university was something only a small number of people did it was possible to have higher standards because people who could not meet them had other options. Today university is seen as a necessity which puts pressure on admins to reduce standards to ensure everyone can get their degree. Ironically this undermines the value of the degrees so people end up spending thousands on a piece of paper that is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for a job.

I would think standards may be lowered so students don't drop out.  More students mean more money, especially after 1st and 2nd year. when classes shrink dramatically due to drop outs.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Apparently you can write a bunch of fake essays filled with trendy social justice jargon and get published in peer-reviewed academic journals: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/
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Offline MH

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Apparently you can write a bunch of fake essays filled with trendy social justice jargon and get published in peer-reviewed academic journals: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/

Didn't that happen like 10 years ago ?

Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Probably.  They mention another instance in the 90's.
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Offline MH

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Probably.  They mention another instance in the 90's.
 

I'm ok with taking stock of our universities and education systems.

Along with:
- Democratic engagement (#1)
- Values
- Unity
- Arts & Culture
- Entitlements
- Taxes
- Our Military
- Healthcare

Start with a whiteboard, a multiparty committee of smart people, and a group of representative citizens from every region.


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“Human Reaction to **** Culture and Queer Performativity at Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon”

 “Do dogs suffer oppression based upon (perceived) gender?” the paper asks.

HAHAHAHHAA

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In “Rubbing One Out: Defining Metasexual Violence of Objectification Through Nonconsensual ****,” the fictitious author argues that men who masturbate while thinking about a woman without her consent are perpetrators of sexual violence

AHHHHH HAHAHHAHAA

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By drawing upon empirical studies of psychological harms of objectification, especially through depersonalization, and exploring severel veins of theoretical literature on nonphysical forms of sexual violence, this articles seeks to situate non-concensual male autoerotic fantasizing about women as a form of metasexual violence that depersonalizes her, injures her being on an affective level, contributes to consequent harms of objectification and **** culture, and can appropriate her identity for the purpose of male sexual gratification.

HAHHAHA  I'm dying here.

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“Academics,” Alison Phipps wrote on Twitter, “please stand by colleagues in Gender Studies/Critical Race Studies/Fat Studies & other areas targeted by this journal article hoax. This is a coordinated attack from the right.”

(One way for progressives to avoid being attacked in such a way would be to not embrace nonsense.)

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That too is intellectually dishonest. For one, Lindsay, Pluckrose and Boghossian describe themselves as left-leaning liberals. For another, it is nonsensical to insist that nonsense scholarship doesn’t matter because you don’t like the motives of the people who exposed it, or because some other forms of scholarship may also contain nonsense. If certain fields of study cannot reliably differentiate between real scholarship and noxious bloviating, they become deeply suspect. And if they are so invested in overcoming injustice that they are willing to embrace rank cruelty as long as it is presented in the right kind of progressive jargon, they are worsening the problems they purport to address.

That's the sound of the nail being hit squarely on the head.

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But if we are to be serious about remedying discrimination, racism, and sexism, we can’t ignore the uncomfortable truth these hoaxers have revealed: Some academic emperors—the ones who supposedly have the most to say about these crucial topics—have no clothes.

Beautifully stated.


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Offline waldo

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Beautifully stated.

outright data fraud... nothing more than simple results fabrication... even the most prestigious and credible academic journals have been taken in by cheats/con-artists!
« Last Edit: January 06, 2019, 02:57:49 pm by waldo »

Offline ?Impact

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published in peer-reviewed academic journals

I am not sure that "social science" journals are comparable to says physics.

Offline Queefer Sutherland

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outright data fraud... nothing more than simple results fabrication... even the most prestigious and credible academic journals have been taken in by cheats/con-artists!

What data?  There is no data.  There's lots of humanities/social science papers without much if any data.  Theory doesn't need data.  Philosophy doesn't need data.  Jesus & St. Augustine of Hippo had no data, neither did Plato. 

The emperor has no clothes.  The people who edited these "peer-reviewed" essays liked what they read and sought them fit to print. Why?  Because some academics in the humanities editing these journals are **** morons.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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I am not sure that "social science" journals are comparable to says physics.

Very different subject matter, yes.  One is much more subjective, a lot more susceptible to confirmation bias.
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Offline waldo

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What data?  There is no data.

 ;D oh really... per one of the "studies" Ms. kimmy highlighted, how would you refer to made-up research... like 10,000 hours of fake observation of dogs humping other dogs at dog parks?

Offline Queefer Sutherland

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;D oh really... per one of the "studies" Ms. kimmy highlighted, how would you refer to made-up research... like 10,000 hours of fake observation of dogs humping other dogs at dog parks?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D HEY!
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