Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Tamler learns something new about menstruation. David weighs in on the democratic debates and the impeachment hearings. Then we map the various social and political factions onto the factions in our respective fields. Who are establishment neoliberals of philosophy, and who are the white feminists? What about the IDWs of psychology – and the Chads and Stacys?
Finally we get serious and break down the article by Alan Fiske in Psychological Review called "The Lexical Fallacy in Emotion Research." Does language affect how we understand the emotional landscape? Do the words we happen to use deceive us into thinking we have "carved nature at its joints"? What is a natural kind anyway when it comes to emotions?
Plus, after the outro, a quick unedited Mr. Robot discussion of the revelation in season 4, episode 7.
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.0 | Can you teach me those lies? |
| 0:19.4 | Oh, long ago I was like, you were born bad, but it's not. It's the nursery. |
| 0:24.0 | The cleaning of his thoughts and a later attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:40.7 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.8 | Who are you? |
| 0:44.4 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:47.6 | Good man. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm a very bad wizard. |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:16.7 | Dave, apparently the social science, Minarsh literature has some fundamental flaws. |
| 1:22.8 | Did you even know there was a social science, Minarsh literature? |
| 1:27.1 | Are you talking about menarchy, like onset of menstruation? |
| 1:34.0 | Is it that how it's pronounced? |
| 1:40.1 | Is there a replication crisis in the literature on periods? |
| 1:43.9 | Is it all just one big question mark? |
| 1:49.9 | I don't know the details. This is from Twitter, but apparently there's some, I don't know. |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah, there's sampling errors. |
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