Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole - the ‘Greater Male Variability Hypothesis’ (GMVH) may not be discussed in mathematics because it could discourage girls from studying mathematics.

xNOM · 2018-09-08T13:43:10+00:00

First, the National Science Foundation wrote to Sergei requesting that acknowledgment of NSF funding be removed from our paper with immediate effect.

This is the scariest part. This is some deep-state shit.

1up_for_life · 2018-09-08T13:11:59+00:00

The original paper

1LegendaryWombat · 2018-09-08T22:18:00+00:00

Oh yeah this study, i just read about that, pretty fascinating stuff.

Wait its being basically censored? What the hell?

“I support people discussing controversial matters openly "-Except this one.

This reminds me a lot of when Darwin was throwing out his ideas about evolution, which was met with heavy backlash, but people still investigated it, this is a much less extreme of an idea change and its being annihilated at every turn. It would be like if scientists found an actual scientific basis for God, and then chose to hide it for 'fear of the reaction', which is contrary to what science is and is meant to be.

The intellectual dishonesty is baffling.

BlueOrange22 · 2018-09-08T13:24:55+00:00

So actual science being restricted because of a made-up theory. Remember this when ever debating the validity of gender studies; it's made up an anti-science.

DoctorKnockboots · 2018-09-07T23:57:18+00:00

Ahh, outliers and liars.

Consilio_et_Animis · 2018-09-08T08:47:41+00:00

“Feminist Science” is a real thing.

Therealmejiemperor · 2018-09-08T01:43:11+00:00

Not a surprise unfortunately.

goodmod · 2018-09-08T07:33:32+00:00

Universities are basically useless for education and research in certain areas that are affected by political ideology. It's up to the Internet to take over those roles.

Mehtasticone · 2018-09-08T02:12:54+00:00

There’s actually a study of biology that supports this. “Volumes and cortical thickness between men also tended to vary much more than they did between women, the researchers report this month in a paper posted to the bioRxiv server, which makes articles available before they have been peer reviewed.” http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/study-finds-some-significant-differences-brains-men-and-women

Here’s a link to the published study https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/28/8/2959/4996558

Imnotmrabut · 2018-09-08T11:26:12+00:00

Can't find the source so retracted.

It might be related to this guy.

https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html

thrway_1000 · 2018-09-08T01:19:14+00:00

Archive -- https://archive.is/Xlppf

ZimbaZumba · 2018-09-09T16:37:04+00:00

Two thoughts come to mind:-

Galileo
Streisand Effect

EDIT: Apparently mathematics has a habit of doing this type of thing LINK.

ts20xx · 2018-09-08T21:52:11+00:00

In looking into GMVH researchers have generally found that the viability of the hypothesis varies wildly community to community and culture to culture, suggesting that it's causes in humans are likely relates to cultural influences rather than genetics.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2018-09-08T11:58:58+00:00

It's the kind of paper whose conclusions could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. People virtually never take in the results of these studies correctly; they assume the effect is bigger than it is and explains more than it reasonably can.

Does that mean we can never do this research or talk about it? No. But if it risks deligitimizing some group's right to sit at the table, we should be extremely careful about how we bring it up and for what reason.