POTF 27 - Winner and Runner-Up

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The winner of POTF 27 was me, earning 1 competition point and 5 rep points. Thanks for the welcome back surprise

Winning Post

Sex differences in attaining the rank of professor in Sweden

Good God. It’s depressing that journals are rejecting research just because it doesn’t fit their political worldview. Likewise, the two anonymous scholars and two anonymous reviewers is quite chilling. I imagine Swedish academia is worse for this sort of orthodoxy, but it exists in the wider Western academic field too. I have to say progressive articles make for much for aggrandising reading. I’m a part of the elite white patriarchy? Why that sounds much nicer than what I read in the Newsletter today. Anyway, when societies cancel out the social differences, the innate natural ones are allowed to manifest themselves as people make individual career choices. This is called the gender Equality paradox, but really it’s nothing of the sort. Equal freedom is equality is equality, no matter the outcome of people’s choices. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/03/14...r-science/amp/ https://www.universityworldnews.com/...61212121515275 The report, Education and Scientific Development in Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Countries 2016, was published by the Turkey-based Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries or SESRIC. It was presented at the8th Islamic Conference of Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Researchheld under the theme “Higher Education: Quality and suitability” in Mali’s capital Bamako from 14-15 November. Women’s participation The report indicates that women researchers represent around 36.5% of the total number of researchers in six countries located in North Africa including Tunisia (47%), Egypt (42.3%), Sudan (40%), Algeria (34.8%), Morocco (30.2%) and Libya (24.8%). This means that the share of women researchers in the North Africa region is above the world average of 22.5 %, the European average of 33% and the developed country average of 26%. With more than 40% of women researchers, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan are close to achieving gender parity. With 47% female participation, Tunisia also tops the Arab list. The SESRIC report is in line with UNESCO's Engineering: Issues, challenges and opportunities for development, which shows that the percentage of women engineers in Arab countries such as Tunisia and Egypt ranges from 24% to 50% – substantially higher than the global average, the United States figure of around 15% to 20% and the United Kingdom’s 8%. The impact of increased female participation. He said quick analysis showed that the impacts of the scientific outcomes of North African women were weak. The list of the 100 most powerful Arab women in 2016 boasted just eight scientists at universities including only three from North Africa. And what are the potential reasons for higher female representation? “Overall, these countries may promote collectivism over individualism, gender label STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] fields as ‘masculine’ less-so than other countries, and their developing economies may shape choice.” And for some reason they want to still want to increase the amount of female researchers in MENA countries? “Research suggests that by providing social networks and peer support, we can increase the number of women participating as professionals in the science and medical fields.” This, Dajani said, would create a new generation of women scholars and promote multidisciplinary and multi-cultural research that combines all fields of science.

Runner-up this week is Cope. See you next week.

Runner Up Post

Moral Panic Next Door: The new "Internet radicalization" boogeyman for the simple-minded

I think you're going too far in identifying difference. I'm pretty sure conservative right wing religious crazies are about as sure of their moral correctness as any sociopathic socialist... The thing they all share is the belief that they, and only they, are correct, and they have a complete inability to empathise. The rest is semantics. The alt-right (what we're discussing) is enthnonationalistic and fascistic, not religiously conservative. It tends to view Christianity as a servile "Jewish" religion while cynically treating it as useful vehicle for uniting certain European ethnic groups (since it is a point of cultural contact). The Church's historic practices are used as a justification for homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism, but Christ's messages of love, forgiveness and universalism are openly denounced. In terms of their own religious views, followers of the alt-right tend either to be atheists or "Pagans" (they're really just appropriating paganism for nationalist reasons). To this extent the movement mirrors the attitude of the NSDAP.

[Akar]

Rigged!

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Drain the swamp!