{"id":45894,"date":"2018-11-07T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=45894"},"modified":"2018-11-07T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T18:30:09","slug":"study-conservatives-silencing-themselves-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/study-conservatives-silencing-themselves-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Conservatives silencing themselves on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On many campuses, the political bias is massive<\/a>, to the point that a student could easily spend all four years on campus without hearing any \u201cconservative\u201d opinions, much less meeting an actual conservative professor.<\/p>\n

Trouble is, despite what our legacy media keeps screaming at us, lots of people have conservative views. This includes devout followers of Christian faiths (they exist, honest, despite the media downplay in the face of the many, many, churches you can see with your own eyes as you drive through any city), as well as people who dared to put an \u2018R\u2019 on their political affiliation.<\/p>\n

This group includes many of our young adults, our kids heading off to college. How are they to act when they set foot on a campus which considers them little more than knuckle-dragging monsters?<\/p>\n

Students\u2019 Religiosity and Perceptions of Professor Bias: Some Empirical Lessons for Sociologists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a serious study, so allow me to focus mostly on the abstract:<\/p>\n

A political mismatch between professors and a large swath of the student population has been widely documented. This mismatch is salient within sociology, where left-leaning politics are mainstream and institutionalized.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, no kidding. Much like my first link in today\u2019s post the mismatch is extreme. By \u201cinstitutionalized\u201d the authors are referring to the fact that this mismatch cannot change: institutions have rigged the game at the hiring level, so conservative faculty simply cannot get into the institutions anymore.<\/p>\n

Further, extant research indicates that this political mismatch leads students outside of the left-leaning mainstream to perceive that their professors are politically biased\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cleads\u2026to perceive\u2026politically biased\u201d? Seriously? This is not a perception, it\u2019s heavily documented fact. It\u2019s why anti-communists<\/a>, pro-heterosexuals<\/a>, and Christians<\/a> all receive very biased, hostile, treatment on campus, while the \u201cnot conservative\u201d people get basically a free pass on everything. I grant that this particular bias isn\u2019t the focus on the paper, so let\u2019s move on:<\/p>\n

In response, this study analyzes survey data from a diverse sample of undergraduate students enrolled in sociology courses\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

While sociology isn\u2019t the most hard-core topic on campus, it does have some things to say of relevance. Thus, most student are as obligated to take sociology courses as they are mathematics courses; the sample here is restricted to surveys of students in sociology courses, but that\u2019s not much of a bias. I took two such courses as an undergraduate, even though I was a mathematics major.
\nAnd what kind of results did the study yield?<\/p>\n

Our results suggest that religiosity affects perceptions of and reactions to professors\u2019 biases through increased skepticism towards science\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, one would expect religiosity to affect perception, and it\u2019s good the paper acknowledged the professor bias in sociology but\u2026\u201dincreased skepticism towards science\u201d? What? I remind the reader that many \u201cscientific\u201d studies cannot be replicated<\/a>, fundamentally violating the core concept of the scientific method, and that, moreover, fields like sociology are particularly vulnerable to having wide swaths of their beliefs not being replicable.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u2026scary that the religious are being targeted for their skepticism here, when seriously any rational person, aware of what\u2019s currently going on, should be skeptical of \u201cthe latest scientific findings.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few more thing were buried in the study<\/a> but not in the abstract:<\/p>\n

\u201cStudent learning is derailed when students perceive a need to censor their beliefs or write on an exam what they think a professor wants to hear. That is not a positive learning experience, or really a learning experience at all,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmm, the students \u201cperceive\u201d a need to censor their beliefs? Surely the researchers know that when conservative speakers come on campus, protesters threatening physical violence to such speakers are quite common? To call this a \u201cperception\u201d is as inadequate as saying humans \u201cperceive a need\u201d to inhale oxygen.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help but suspect the authors of the study are dancing around an obvious problem here, as they consistently use language to spin things to represent the problem is the students, and not the atmosphere on many campuses.<\/p>\n

\u2026suggests that professors could go out of their way to acknowledge politically divergent theories during class, and to create a welcoming environment for diverse viewpoints.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s good advice. Too bad the hiring committees make it certain professors holding \u201cpolitically divergent\u201d theories aren\u2019t allowed on campuses. It\u2019s quite well known that the \u201cconvergent\u201d faculty aren\u2019t going to address those other theories beyond sneering condescension\u2014otherwise they wouldn\u2019t be converged, after all.
\nStill recovering, so another short post.<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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