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Published on: February 29, 2020
Political bias, explanatory depth, and narratives of progress
1Department of Psychology,Harvard University,Cambridge,MA 02138.pinker@wjh.harvard.eduhttp://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/
Abstract:
Political bias has indeed been a distorter of psychology, not just in particular research areas but in an aversion to the explanatory depth available from politically fraught fields like evolution. I add two friendly amendments to the target article: (1) The leftist moral narrative may be based on zero-sum competition among identity groups rather than continuous progress; and (2) ideological bias should be dealt with not just via diversity of ideological factions but by minimizing the influence of ideology altogether.
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