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SIO304: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? Part 2: The Study So Bad It Made Quillette Look Good

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Continuing from the last episode, Lindsey backs up her claim that the bulk of the terrible science was yet to come. WOW. This study was complete garbage. You really ought to hear how terrible it is. Lindsey, as usual, did other people's homework for them. She got a hold of some of the data and did her own work with it, which revealed some interesting stuff. Here is the doc.

Links: the study, the article, Moss & O'Connor (2020b; origin of White Identitarianism Scale), Pew Poll, Political Polarization in the American Public, Master's thesis (origin of the PC scales)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only this is episode 304 and this is a part two.

0:17.6

I'm Thomas.

0:19.0

That's Dr. Linser Ostriman is what my brain wanted to say and that be your name now yeah.

0:25.8

You know it's I haven't seen it about a billion years and I don't know if it holds up

0:29.3

but Brazil really was a great movie.

0:31.5

Did you see that one back in the day?

0:33.1

Oh man it has been a long time but yeah yeah there's where like the whoever it is like

0:37.6

keeps calling his wife the wrong name and the guy is just like that's her name now

0:41.9

yeah he just like go just go with it you know kind of thing.

0:44.3

Anyway Dr. Linser Ostriman how are you doing?

0:49.0

I am so good how are you?

0:51.2

I am I have been just waiting for part two.

0:54.6

There's so much more I'm told that it worked out that we did two parts maybe.

0:59.2

Yeah so we we left off talking about how it's it's pretty atrocious that these scales

1:04.4

that they're using to measure their main variables political correctness liberalism political

1:08.8

correctness authoritarianism and white identitarianism were not validated and one of the things

1:13.7

that I was criticizing is like you know it's it's there's a traditional measure of political

1:18.8

ideology where people just rate on a single continuum like where they are between very

1:23.6

liberal and very conservative.

1:25.0

Hot or not oh no okay yeah that one.

1:27.3

Well that too.

1:29.3

And so I have a it's not exactly a correction but it's a bit of a concession and there

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