{"id":5371,"date":"2019-03-22T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2019-03-22T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:20:18","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-195","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 195"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2019\/03\/privileged-poor-navigating-elite-university-life\/585100\/\">Elite Col\u00adleges Con\u00adstant\u00adly Tell Low-Income Stu\u00addents That They Do Not Belong<\/a> (Clint Smith, The Atlantic): \u201cThe priv\u00adi\u00adleged poor are stu\u00addents who come from low-income back\u00adgrounds but attend\u00aded wealthy pri\u00advate high schools, giv\u00ading them a lev\u00adel of famil\u00adiar\u00adi\u00adty with and access to the social and cul\u00adtur\u00adal cap\u00adi\u00adtal that tend to make peo\u00adple suc\u00adcess\u00adful at elite uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties. The dou\u00adbly dis\u00adad\u00advan\u00adtaged are stu\u00addents who arrive at these top insti\u00adtu\u00adtions from neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood pub\u00adlic schools, many of which are over\u00adcrowd\u00aded and under\u00adfund\u00aded. They are schools where these stu\u00addents have excelled, but that are ill-equipped to give them the socio\u00adcul\u00adtur\u00adal tools nec\u00ades\u00adsary to under\u00adstand the nuances of how these elite col\u00adleges oper\u00adate.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/16\/opinion\/sunday\/the-scandals-of-meritocracy.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">The Scan\u00addals of Mer\u00adi\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cThe \u2018more mer\u00adi\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy\u2019 argu\u00adment against both lega\u00adcies and racial quo\u00adtas implic\u00adit\u00adly assumes that apti\u00adtude \u2014 some elixir of I.Q. and work eth\u00adic \u2014 is what our elite pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly lacks. But is that real\u00adly our upper class\u2019s prob\u00adlem?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2019\/march\/evangelical-nones-mainline-us-general-social-survey-gss.html\">Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Show No Decline, Despite Trump and Nones<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThe fact that evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals\u2019 share of the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion remains rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly sta\u00adble over the last decade is strik\u00ading giv\u00aden the con\u00adtin\u00adued rise of the nones. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals have been able to replace loss\u00ades as fast as they are occur\u00adring, at least for now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/03\/21\/study-leaving-religion-sex-abuse-scandals-affects-public-health-column\/3224575002\/\">Reli\u00adgion\u2019s health effects should make doubt\u00ading parish\u00adioners recon\u00adsid\u00ader leav\u00ading<\/a> (John Siniff and Tyler J. Van\u00adder\u00adWeele, USA Today): \u201cSim\u00adply from a pub\u00adlic health per\u00adspec\u00adtive, the con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading diminu\u00adtion of reli\u00adgious upbring\u00ading in Amer\u00adi\u00adca would be bad for health. This is not pros\u00ade\u00adly\u00adtiz\u00ading; this is sci\u00adence.\u201d The Har\u00advard epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy pro\u00adfes\u00adsor&nbsp; last made an appear\u00adance here back in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/09\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-65\">vol\u00adume 65<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tobyjsumpter.com\/why-the-bible-aint-woke\/\">Why The Bible Ain\u2019t Woke<\/a> (Toby Sumpter, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c\u2026it is sim\u00adply not enough to note that Jonathan Edwards, the puri\u00adtans, or the founders of South\u00adern Sem\u00adi\u00adnary <em>owned<\/em> slaves. Far more work must be done to demon\u00adstrate that these men <em>sinned<\/em> in their treat\u00adment of their slaves. And fur\u00adther\u00admore, even where sin can be clear\u00adly demon\u00adstrat\u00aded, there must be a bright and shin\u00ading light of demar\u00adca\u00adtion between dis\u00adqual\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading sin and the endem\u00adic sins of the human race.\u201d He has unde\u00adni\u00adably inter\u00adest\u00ading things to say, but read his arti\u00adcle in con\u00adjunc\u00adtion with the con\u00adtent from Peter Williams and Glenn Miller I shared back in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/11\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-76\">vol\u00adume 76<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center\">The Reck\u00adon\u00ading of Mor\u00adris Dees and the South\u00adern Pover\u00adty Law Cen\u00adter<\/a> (Bob Moser, New York\u00ader): \u201cFor those of us who\u2019ve worked in the Pover\u00adty Palace, putting it all into per\u00adspec\u00adtive isn\u2019t easy, even to our\u00adselves. We were work\u00ading with a group of ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded and tal\u00adent\u00aded peo\u00adple, fight\u00ading all kinds of good fights, mak\u00ading life mis\u00ader\u00adable for the bad guys. And yet, all the time, dark shad\u00adows hung over every\u00adthing: the racial and gen\u00adder dis\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adties, the whis\u00adpers about sex\u00adu\u00adal harass\u00adment, the abus\u00ades that stemmed from the top-down man\u00adage\u00adment, and the guilt you couldn\u2019t help feel\u00ading about the legions of donors who believed that their mon\u00adey was being used, faith\u00adful\u00adly and well, to do the Lord\u2019s work in the heart of Dix\u00adie. We were part of the con, and we knew it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cognition.2019.03.006\">The need for intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal diver\u00adsi\u00adty in psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00adence: Our own stud\u00adies of active\u00adly open-mind\u00aded think\u00ading as a case study<\/a> (Stanovich and Toplak, Cog\u00adni\u00adtion): \u201cit is impor\u00adtant that psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy main\u00adtain its cred\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty as a neu\u00adtral arbiter\u2014a cred\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty that has been vast\u00adly erod\u00aded in recent years by empir\u00adi\u00adcal evi\u00addence of the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal bias in our sci\u00adence (Ceci and Williams, 2018, Craw\u00adford and Jus\u00adsim, 2018, Duarte et al., 2015). There is a need for greater intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal diver\u00adsi\u00adty in all areas of psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy, but par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly in those that inter\u00adface with pol\u00adi\u00adtics and socio\u00adcul\u00adtur\u00adal beliefs. Greater intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal diver\u00adsi\u00adty in our own lab years ago might have pre\u00advent\u00aded us from con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading to use items in our AOT scale that inflat\u00aded neg\u00ada\u00adtive cor\u00adre\u00adla\u00adtions with reli\u00adgios\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>tl;dr \u2014 researchers real\u00adized that a well-known psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal tool they devel\u00adoped years ago was biased against reli\u00adgious believ\u00aders, and they con\u00adclud\u00aded this prob\u00ada\u00adbly hap\u00adpened because their lab was \u201cover\u00adwhelm\u00ading\u00adly sec\u00adu\u00adlar.\u201d They humbly repent\u00aded and wrote a paper about their mis\u00adtake. Kudos to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/atheism-is-inconsistent-with-the-scientific-method-prizewinning-physicist-says\/\">Athe\u00adism Is Incon\u00adsis\u00adtent with the Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Method, Prizewin\u00adning Physi\u00adcist Says<\/a> (Lee Billings, Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Amer\u00adi\u00adcan): \u201cI hon\u00adest\u00adly think athe\u00adism is incon\u00adsis\u00adtent with the sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic method. What I mean by that is, what is athe\u00adism? It\u2019s a state\u00adment, a cat\u00ade\u00adgor\u00adi\u00adcal state\u00adment that express\u00ades belief in non\u00adbe\u00adlief.\u201d This is from an inter\u00adview with Marce\u00adlo Gleis\u00ader, Dart\u00admouth physics prof. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<p>Sad\u00adly, I got noth\u00ading this week. In lieu of awe\u00adsome links, here\u2019s a mediocre joke: \u201cWhat\u2019s the best thing to put in a cook\u00adie? Your teeth!\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/on-political-correctness\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Cor\u00adrect\u00adness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (William Dere\u00adsiewicz, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Schol\u00adar): a long and thought\u00adful arti\u00adcle. \u201cSelec\u00adtive pri\u00advate col\u00adleges have become reli\u00adgious schools. The reli\u00adgion in ques\u00adtion is not Method\u00adism or Catholi\u00adcism but an extreme ver\u00adsion of the belief sys\u00adtem of the lib\u00ader\u00adal elite: the lib\u00ader\u00adal pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal, man\u00adage\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal, and cre\u00adative class\u00ades, which pro\u00advide a large major\u00adi\u00adty of stu\u00addents enrolled at such places and an even larg\u00ader major\u00adi\u00adty of fac\u00adul\u00adty and admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors who work at them. To attend those insti\u00adtu\u00adtions is to be social\u00adized, and not infre\u00adquent\u00adly, indoc\u00adtri\u00adnat\u00aded into that reli\u00adgion\u2026. I say this, by the way, as an athe\u00adist, a demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic social\u00adist, a native north\u00adeast\u00adern\u00ader, a per\u00adson who believes that col\u00adleges should not have sports teams in the first place\u2014and in case it isn\u2019t obvi\u00adous by now, a card-car\u00adry\u00ading mem\u00adber of the lib\u00ader\u00adal elite.\u201d (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/03\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-92\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 92<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.<\/p>\n<p>Also, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.<\/p>\n<p>If this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Elite Col\u00adleges Con\u00adstant\u00adly Tell Low-Income Stu\u00addents That They Do Not Belong (Clint Smith, The \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-195\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 195\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A physicist disses atheism, a Harvard epidemiologist prescribes religion, and some psychologists realize that having an overwhelmingly secular lab gives them blind spots.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,124,204,140,240,183,172,178],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-atheism","tag-culture","tag-elite-colleges","tag-psychology","tag-racism","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1oD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}