• @selfMA
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      74 months ago

      every fucking time. what’s the Wikipedia term for “this source is barely qualified to touch computers, much less weigh in on this topic?”

      • @Soyweiser
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        64 months ago

        This but replace the references to stocks to references to IQ and the last panel with ‘everybody thinks im a piece of shit now’.

      • David GerardMA
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        54 months ago

        i tell you, i larfed and larfed

    • @geriksonOP
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      4 months ago

      Meta Wiki question, are “bare” citations (no hyperlinks) acceptable in the reference section? It’s not too hard to find this paper just based on author’s last name and year in this case, but in others it might be harder.

      • David GerardMA
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        54 months ago

        yeah, absolutely. Some editors find it a bit lazy and annoying, but it’s still a vast improvement over no reference. In fact there are bots that will attempt to turn URLs into nicely formatted references.

    • @geriksonOP
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      54 months ago

      JFC the abstract

      Gould has no difficulty in demonstrating the influence of racism; where he goes astray is in his dismissal of such prior work as simply unscientific because the racist conclusions preceded the collection of data. Advancing hypotheses prior to experimentation is how all of science proceeds, and is no mark of inferior work. And no science is immune to influences - racist or otherwise -from the culture in which it is embedded, as Gould elsewhere readily acknowledges.

      I mean, in that case the interest in IQ should have gone the way of phrenology except phrenology is still around.