centristblogs
centristblogs
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Apr 20, 2014 (12 years) |
6 years | 3 | 11 |
- Forum role
- Member
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Apr 20, 2014 (12 years)
- Last activity
- 6 years
- Topics created
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- Replies created
- 11
Bio
Formerly "Blogs Leaning Toward The Center", because as I said earlier
"I run a ring for Centrist blogs"
in theory. But really, the concept of "rings" was a little dated when I started that ring, and it never really got going. Instead, this will be a blog about my experience of becoming a better informed voter, as I learn more about social science and maybe make a small contribution along the way.
I am a PhD candidate in Mathematics, specializing in Probability, with a graduate level background in Statistics, and will have a few things to say about the use to which I'll be seeing my own subject put in the social sciences. Be forewarned: I am an unapologetic frequentist, not a bayesian.
SJWs and other ideologues will not be happy, as I will not make any effort to validate their assumptions. Many other people might find what I write to be extremely dry, because I don't enjoy the idea of writing about the clownishness and drama of politics. Sometimes I have to, because when neo-Naziism makes a political return from the dead, history is being made, and I have to acknowledge the reality of that history, but it's a history of people being vile and stupid.
When people stop viewing each other as human beings because of the amount of light reflected by a person's skin, how can one shake off the feeling that one has found oneself trapped in a hamfisted satire, a dystopian SciFi B movie? I am not going to spend a lot of time explaining to you why your black neighbor or your white neighbor is just as human as you are, and entitled to be treated as such, because there are already other people doing a better job of that than I would, and because we should all have gotten this memo, already. There should be no need to explain something this basic, this obvious, and when there is, that's the job of a spiritual counselor, not that of a mathematician in training.
To those reach out to the "sphincters" of the world and somehow succeed, as an individual I offer my thanks, and hope a lot of other people are doing likewise. It's noble work and I respect it. But it's a headache I don't want to deal with, which is one reason why I am as quick to block on social media as I am.
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