“Science was born when, with the progress of technology, the experimental method eventually overcame the social prejudice against manual labor and was adopted by rationally trained scholars” Edgar Zilsel, “The Sociological Roots of Science” (1942) jstor.org/stable/2769053
“Science was born when, with the progress of technology, the experimental method eventually overcame the social prejudice against manual labor and was adopted by rationally trained scholars”
The isolation of rural families, before the telephone and mass media, is hard to comprehend today. (A story from the early life of Norman Borlaug, who was called “Norm boy” as a kid) pic.twitter.com/ccT9jqJtrZ
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don't work you die” twitter.com/calebwatney/st…
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” — Blackstone’s Ratio, age-old legal principle. Parler had 15 million users whose speech rights were materially diminished because Amazon didn’t like 100 posts. That’s quite a ratio.
Bertrand Russell in 1932: "University life is so different from life in the world at large that men who live in an academic milieu tend to be unaware of the pre-occupations of ordinary men and women" harpers.org/archive/1932/1…
The psychological toll of playing Tony Soprano amzn.to/3x1PZHw pic.twitter.com/jX2ZLVZppl
"authentic living does not require rejecting external influence...In fact, situational acceptance of external influence was more often related to an increased, rather than decreased, sense of authenticity" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… pic.twitter.com/tu1a4Dzs4g
84% of rich Americans report that they pay attention to politics "most of the time" Asked how many days a week they talk politics; median response was 5 days "Wealthy Americans tend to be highly active in politics, far more so than the typical citizen" faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jnd260/cab/CA… pic.twitter.com/KFdcoickRn
-Listeners heard speakers use either filler words (eg "um"), no filler (smooth speech), or brief pauses -Smooth speech rated most eloquent; filler words & brief pauses rated equally eloquent -Listeners rated filler words as more relaxed than brief pauses link.springer.com/article/10.100… pic.twitter.com/VEf8paloWA
Fascinating discussion of the history of psychological science. Researchers ran tests on a single person repeatedly, and use the results to generalize to others. Until the 1940s, top journals published articles abt individuals (often identified by initials), not group aggregates pic.twitter.com/Jul7E5sCGl
"When everyone is morally offended, a clear signal of commitment is to be more outraged than most. When there is uncertainty about people’s commitment to a cause, it becomes necessary for members of the coalition to demonstrate their resolution by adopting more extreme positions" pic.twitter.com/E3UmVlEVUM
