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‘Scientific thinking’ as a barrier to diversity in science

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Praj / 11 Comments

  A couple months ago my friend Kenny Gibbs wrote a great post about diversity and science for Scientific American. I want to reflect on this sentence (emphasis...

Evidence

Why I use sports analogies

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

I’m sure many of you wonder why, as cliché and trite as they often are, I harp on sports analogies. It’s not just because I’m uncreative (alth...

Evidence/Values

Have you heard of Wilt Chamberlain?

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Praj / 6 Comments

[My thoughts in essay form. Long-time readers will find it familiar. Feel free to share.] Tonight’s debate on creationism between Ken Ham and Bill Nye will end—...

Education/Evidence

Intelligence, cont.

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Praj / 0 Comment

Victor’s brilliant comment deserves a call-out: The same can be said about class work and research. Even on the same topic or in the same academic area, s...

Evidence/Values

Is belief in evolution a good predictive tool?

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

[Warning – a long post that uses yet another tendentious sports analogy. Read at your peril.–PK] A reader questions both creationists ability to do ...

Evidence

The Wilt Chamberlain analogy for human intelligence

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

Wilt Chamberlain is one of the most dominant players in the history of basketball, if not team sports. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single gam...

Evidence

People are scary, part II

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

Victor helpfully critiqued my goal to develop a model of human intelligence: Of course my question would be what’s the point of creating such a conceptual model...

Evidence

Models of human intelligence

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Praj / 2 Comments

I want to revisit this Alex Knapp quote yet again: if [politicians] hold ideas about the world around us that are fundamentally at odds with scientific evidence...

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