“Kelly did a lot of work in order to point out a real phenomenon, and I don’t see anyone taking her very seriously.”—Kelly put in a lot of work, but there were a lot of issues with the original post. I think this was inevitable to an extent, unless you’re already a policy expert producing high quality work really needs a group of people or multiple feedback cycles. I think that it is especially important to maintain high standards of evidence in regards to this issue because the increasing political polarisation means that both sides of the spectrum are dropping their own standards.
I don’t see many people who want to figure out how much of a problem there is, and then apply e.g. utilitarianism to decide what to do about that. That would count as acting seriously.
“Kelly did a lot of work in order to point out a real phenomenon, and I don’t see anyone taking her very seriously.”—Kelly put in a lot of work, but there were a lot of issues with the original post. I think this was inevitable to an extent, unless you’re already a policy expert producing high quality work really needs a group of people or multiple feedback cycles. I think that it is especially important to maintain high standards of evidence in regards to this issue because the increasing political polarisation means that both sides of the spectrum are dropping their own standards.
I don’t see many people who want to figure out how much of a problem there is, and then apply e.g. utilitarianism to decide what to do about that. That would count as acting seriously.