Social Scientist Sees Bias Within

Psychologists discussing bias (you know, your everyday bias namely racial bias, homophobia, unconscious bias against minorities... as only psychologist can discuss you know - can you imagine being at this conference and having to bite on your tongue?), anyway, they were shocked to learn they are biased against conservatives! Up to 80% of the 1000 psychologists attending a Social Psychology conference in San Antonio, considered themselves politically liberal. Only 3 (yes, 3 people, not percent) admitted to being conservative, with about 3 dozen considering themselves as centrists and libertarians. Can you now see why this world is in the mess it is when you have these dip-s%$t liberals controlling people's minds and "analysing" situations?? Out in the real world, 40% of normal people identify themselves as conservative with only 20% as liberal (that's way too high for my liking!). Yet, over 80% of psychologists are liberal! Talk about being biased! Now you can understand why their only opinion to any perceived homophobia /islamaphobia or "underrepresentation" of women/minorities etc. is seen as discrimination. All of a sudden it's crystal clear - now I understand why I've never liked these psychlopsis - they only look out of one jaded liberal eye!!!

Psychologists - nothing more than one-eyed liberals

SAN ANTONIO — Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting.

Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s conference, where psychologists discuss their research on racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism, stereotype threat and unconscious bias against minorities. But the most talked-about speech at this year’s meeting, which ended Jan. 30, involved a new “outgroup.”

It was identified by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality and ideology. He polled his audience at the San Antonio Convention Center, starting by asking how many considered themselves politically liberal. A sea of hands appeared, and Dr. Haidt estimated that liberals made up 80 percent of the 1,000 psychologists in the ballroom. When he asked for centrists and libertarians, he spotted fewer than three dozen hands. And then, when he asked for conservatives, he counted a grand total of three.

“This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity,” Dr. Haidt concluded, noting polls showing that 40 percent of Americans are conservative and 20 percent are liberal. In his speech and in an interview, Dr. Haidt argued that social psychologists are a “tribal-moral community” united by “sacred values” that hinder research and damage their credibility — and blind them to the hostile climate they’ve created for non-liberals.

“Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation,” said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist. “But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations.”


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