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Learning to talk

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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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Earlier today, during my Twitter procrastination from writing a proposal, I saw this call for response from the organization Minority and Philosophy (MAP), which is a student-run international nonprofit aimed at advocating for diversity and inclusion within academic philosophy: Did experiences with epistemic injustice as a student impact your teaching philosophy? We want to know…

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What you need is not love

Posted on Author KinoPosted in Life in Academia, Scattered Plot
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Kino
Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I’m in that awkward career stage where, on the one hand, I’m a senior grad student whom people go to for emotional (and sometimes logistical) support when things don’t work out the way they should, usually related to something a faculty member has done or didn’t do; on the other hand, I’m on the market,…

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Dealing with stuff in the profession

Posted on Author KinoPosted in Life in Academia, Scattered Plot
Kino
Kino
Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I haven’t been posting lately because, you know, the world fell apart. I also finished a draft of my dissertation, which is pretty good given that the world fell apart. I’ll try to get back to it by writing something short today. I was recently mansplained analytic philosophy at a departmental Zoom social, which is…

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Community building and staying grounded during the pandemic lockdown

Posted on Author JingyiPosted in Curved Trajectories, Life in Academia
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Jingyi
Jingyi studies the philosophy of physics and social epistemology. She thinks about possibility spaces in spacetime theories, the role of infinite idealizations in scientific explanations, and values in science. She also organizes for MAP International.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, many are scrambling to adjust to the new life under quarantine. For me, UC Irvine announced on March 9 that we’d move all the operations online. During the ensuing three weeks of staying at home, I’ve watched the number of cases in the US surge past that in…

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Some suggestions for inclusive practices

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Kino
Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I haven’t been writing for a while. A lot has been happening and maybe I’ll write about them later. But right now, I’m trying to get back to writing. I was talking with some people lately about my climate survey. I talked about what surprising things we might learn from something like this (e.g., men…

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I think I thought I saw you try

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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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The Philosophers’ Cocoon has been running a “What it’s like to be a philosopher around the world” series, which I thought was a great idea in shedding light on the sociological status of non-western philosophy, a great complement to the recently proclaimed interest of many departments to diversify their philosophical curriculum (as witnessed through job…

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Is philosophy a talent field?

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Kino
Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I haven’t been posting much, partly because I’ve been busy with job applications. Today will be a short one. As I was writing a research proposal, I went back and reread this 2015 study Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines, by Leslie, Cimpian, Meyer, and Freeland. The study investigates the phenomenon where different…

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Men and the “Philosophical Society”

Posted on Author KinoPosted in Life in Academia, Philosophy of Science, Scattered Plot
Kino
Kino
Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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Men are more likely to make misogynistic arguments; so are philosophers. Could this be the explanation of gender disparity within philosophy? Today, Daily Nous published a guest post by Christina Easton titled Women and the “Philosophical Personality”, with the provocative hypothesis: Research suggests that there is a cognitive task on which philosophers tend to perform…

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An operationalist lesson for passing judgments

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Kino
Kino
Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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A while back, I wrote a blog post on how I don’t believe in the narrative around “talent”. This post continues that line of thought and discusses judgments of potential or effort that are so common in academia. As I explained in that post, I was not especially good at critical thinking up until upper-years…

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Some reflections on doing “service” things and getting them done

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Kino
Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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The Wonder Philosophy workshop, which aims at helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds (mostly first-gen, but also financial hardship and women of colour) who are interested in applying to philosophy graduate schools to navigate the process, has just concluded this past weekend. (I wrote a post about it back when it was still in the planning…

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