A good example of the OP on scientism is a regular contestant on The Past is Right (aka #History of Science):
The #reductionist superlative "every x that exists today was directly predicted/caused by "science" (or field, model, person, etc)."
#woo
related post below: bsky.app/profile/jame... #HPS
If I had to guess, I'd say that 95% of comment sections (if not posts) on social media are a combination of reductionism and *outrageous* amounts of confirmation bias.
#confirmationbias #reductionism #reductionist #socialmedia #socialmediaisadisease #misanthrope #misanthropy #bias #Imtiredboss
But the act of creation cannot be understood from the usual top-down #reductionist method.
We get fooled by our own expert-level use of abstractions, allowing reification to take control of the explanation.
When we don't have the new name yet, we run with a placeholder to fill the gap.
"Oh cool! You're vegan! I totally admire and respect your views!
I don't beat my wife on a Monday! I use an organic wood stick! LOL! Please praise me."
#abuser #abuse #TimeToStop #StopAbuse #MeatlessMonday #Flexitarian #Reductionist #Welfarism
#Emergence in information theory suggests that information arises from complex interactions and relationships, challenging #reductionist views that see it as merely the sum of individual data points. Understanding information requires considering both #context and dynamics.
By 'derail' I should say a new track laid & the path bifurcated so we have parallel versions. I mentioned positive things coming from QM: the idea of #complexity & statistical models sometimes being the best we can do are examples.
The problem is, they didn't let go of #reductionist philosophy.
The #old and the #new #mechanism part 2
- #Explanatory #attempts to #understand the #reductionist and #positivist #worldview -
#complexity #biologicalsystems #mereologicalfallacy #mechanisticworldview #reductionism
More at: philosophies.de/index.php/20...
Who is "we"? Do better. Many of your posts do. But this one, gawd. #reductionist #misogynist
IMvTR by B.M. Puri is relevant to the current #paradigm shift in 21st-century #biology from a merely #reductionist and #mechanistic view of living entities and processes to a holistic, #organismic, & #systems perspective, represented by the debate between biologists Richard #Dawkins and Denis Noble.
It makes no sense to ship undocumented migrants out of the US if there is nothing being done to ameliorate the causes of that very migration. What's the opposite of a holistic view...? 🤔 #usaid #migration #reductionist @aoc.bsky.social www.foxnews.com/politics/hou...
#AI #bias & #ethics - our #systems do not grasp ‘the #pluriverse’ of human experience (Escobar, 2018) and in most cases these systems are #trained with #biased #data that is defined by #simplistic & #reductionist understandings of how humans act, behave, and show emotions (Crawford, 2021).
"describe numerical differences and sample summary statistics and focus on differences of clinical importance"
Use the methods that best describe effects; P only works when it has a 'purpose' or a 'point'
#Research
#QualitativeResearch
#Quantiative
#Reductionist
#Holist
Marcus Rashford’s campaign is super, but it’s also highlighted another weird stereotype: This picture.
This is the #northern #poverty equivalent of the head clutcher #mentalhealth #hiddenpoverty #reductionist #timetochange 1/2
