Tuesday, July 29, 2003
I want a statement, too
BCR wants an apology for this press release on this paper describing the conservative psychology written by people who, it is cleverly pointed out, are not psychologists. (links shamelessly stolen from The Angry Clam and The Capitalist Worker. You can find Hovannes Abramyan's article in The Patriot here) Fellow blogger Abramyan appears to be BCR's point man on this, which included a TV appearance somewhere. I have to disagree, however, that the study and it's media flurry is "going to hurt conservatives who are already having a tough enough time on campus defending themselves." BCR's favorite complaint is that they are faced with an oppressive atmosphere here on campus, and this is only going to provide further evidence to that effect.
Much to my joy, today's paper included a retort from one of the paper's Berkeley authors, Jack Glaser. (it wouldn't have been too hard to find, but this link was also shamelessly stolen, this time from Calstuff) I haven't read the paper (I'm not that bored), but I imagine he's probably correct that Kelly Coyne's assertion that the research was politically motivated was based on the coverage and not on the paper itself. Perhaps the more important point that should have been more clearly raised is that the university was trumpeting this study, and almost certainly would not have if a study had shown that liberals were, to use Glaser's example, indecisive and, to use my own example, boring. I'm actually quite suprised that the university trumpeted the study at all. Where did they get a trumpet?
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