Saving the social sciences from ideological differences

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Saving the social sciences from ideological differences
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The Utterly Moderate Podcast looks at the prevalence of ideological bias in social sciences, leading to misleading information in public discourse.

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On the left, unfortunately, a lot of this bad info comes from an academic research community which is overwhelmingly liberal. A recent study found the least imbalanced discipline to be engineering, which was still 62% liberal professors. Political science was 89%, psychology 94%, and sociology 98%, while some disciplines had no political conservatives at all.

People are also reading… On this episode host Lawrence Eppard is joined by anthropologist Michael Jindra from Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs to talk about this problem and hopefully offer some ways to save the social sciences from themselves.

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