In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, a woman (women are the portavoz or spokesmen for the elites, as we have repeatedly said on this blog), Jesse Singal, authored the article The False Promise of Quick-Fix Psychology where she beats on the concepts of grit (popularized by Angela Duckworth), power-posing (remember Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk from 2012 and her first book, she was later shamed for her contributions) and the implicit association test (IAT), developed by psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald.
While we have explored -and validated-the concepts of grit and power-posing here since 2013, we haven’t talked about IAT.
“The IAT is the brainchild of APS William James Fellow Anthony Greenwald (University of Washington), and he began working collaboratively on it with APS Past President Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University) and APS Fellow Brian Nosek (University of Virginia) in the mid-1990s. Over time, the tool has led to the examination of unconscious and automatic thought processes among people in different contexts, including employers, police officers, jurors, and voters.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has integrated findings about implicit bias into training curricula for more than 28,000 DOJ employees as a way of combating implicit bias among law enforcement agents and prosecutors. And in a historic 2015 decision involving fair housing, the US Supreme Court referenced implicit bias in a ruling allowing federal action against housing policies that have a disparate impact as well as being overtly discriminating.”
The Bias Beneath: Two Decades of Measuring Implicit Associations -The Observer, Association for Psychological Sciences Journal, January 31, 2018
Jesse was shamely published in the Wall Street Journal. Had she used her upcoming book for toilet paper, we wouldn’t be needing to empty stores shelves like last year’s.
Meanwhile, WSJ has refused to publish me, because it might tickle the elites anti-male rhetoric.
What’s up, WSJ ? How long do you think you’re going to keep the horses blinders on us ?
Back to the WSJ article, Jesse discovered black gold with a study that found “intelligence contributes 48-90 times more than grit to educational success.” No kidding, Sherlock. Too bad Jesse doesn’t understand, or conveniently chooses to ignore grit is a less-measurably character trait while intelligence is a polygenic, inheritable, relatively easily-quantified trait. Intelligence is peaking at age 20, after which is slowly declining. Grit ? It doesn’t peak at 20, it can shoot up to the skies at 60 ! Genius Jesse is trying to compare apples to oranges. As for me I’ll stop commenting on her remarkably worthless article.
The elites are shooting at us with non-sense. They always have.
Epic