by David Yamane | Jan 30, 2023 | Jonathan Haidt, My Experience, Sherry Turkle, Social Media
New Year Greetings, faithful readers. Prior to this post, my last entry here was on 16 November 2022. This 10-week break was the longest in the nearly 4 years I have blogged here at Gun Curious (as well as 10+ years blogging at Gun Culture 2.0). I took a break both...
by David Yamane | Jun 1, 2022 | diversity, Jonathan Haidt, Light Over Heat, My Experience, scholarship, The ANNALS
In my last video (Light Over Heat #22), I reflected on the value of diversity (political, cultural, social, intellectual) in exposing us to people different from us and ideas different from our own. From these differences can come greater understanding. I applied this...
by David Yamane | Mar 1, 2020 | academic bias, Jonathan Haidt, My Experience
I reviewed articles for two scholarly journals yesterday, one of which was quite good and one of which had a very good empirical analysis embedded in a badly biased introduction and conclusion. It becomes more and more challenging to maintain my equanimity as I review...
