Thursday, March 12, 2020
A bit of entertainment
Just for fun, a standard "social" "science" "study" that states a tautologous self-evident fact and gets the causation backwards, as always.
This one is so blazingly obvious that the headline is enough:
Kids who blame themselves for mom's sadness are more likely to face depression and anxiety
If you know ANYTHING AT ALL about actual people, you know that anxious depressed types are more likely to blame themselves for everything. Confident risk-taking types don't blame themselves, and usually don't bother to blame anyone. Blaming is not their department. They just go ahead and do whatever they feel like doing.
Before tenure grabbed total control of academia, this sort of thing wouldn't have made it past the starting gate. "Social" "science" used to be a field for people who had experienced a variety of problems and worked through them, just as speech therapy used to be mainly self-cured stutterers. A hypothesis like this would have been rejected quickly by students and profs who were anxious depressive types. Now all of academia is football, and the selectors are confident competitive risk-taking types who don't really understand that PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT.
Labels: Entertainment
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