Welcome to Just another point of view!
About me. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in developmental psychology. I work at a great university with wonderful colleagues. I'm also member of the Heterodox Academy.
Why did I start this publication? Under the umbrella of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, new policies and practices are being implemented by many of our institutions and public bodies without there having been a proper open debate. Some of these policies and practices have important implications beyond the intended ones.
I’m sharing my own point of view here.
As Jon Haidt (who has a fantastic Substack newsletter) wrote in his book:
“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth (such as an intelligence agency or a community of scientists) or to produce good public policy (such as a legislature or advisory board).”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Thanks for being interested,
Amber
About me. I am a postdoctoral researcher in developmental psychology, currently working at a great university with wonderful colleagues. Member of the Heterodox Academy. Ideas and views expressed here are my own.