RE: https://mastodon.social/@dresstokilt/116635288972172703
I love being a social scientist online
@grimalkina @amydiehl
Me: asks a question
You: why do you assume?
I appreciate the context. I could have done without you jumping down my throat for not paying to read your article.
How it started: Bah! Why mention AI? This is as much news as dog bites man!
How it's going: I'm just a poor bloke trying to understand science, why are you gatekeeping me with your SCIENCEY TERMS.
@grimalkina Thanks for drawing attention to that thread. I appreciated the careful explanation you gave about what was being measured.
@mjd thank you for reading my intention of trying to be careful rather than trying to be cold, which I feel are often confused when one is talking about social effects online
@grimalkina to be fair you weren't showing sufficient respect.
We live in a meritocracy, it's not like he was just born white and male.
A little more deference next time, perhaps?
Can't afford my medicine. Can, apparently, afford to ungate every random study done by other people that ever comes across my radar. Why don't you all ever go after the engineers who actually build those paywalls because it's not me.
@grimalkina when I organized an online community I found that some participants were time sinks. I decided I would give them enough information that they could find the rest themselves. I had to keep myself from spending time where it wouldn't pay off. That part was hard.
@shapr yeah for sure. I'm not "organizing a community though" I am a person existing. Sometimes that means we just have conversational encounters like this. I'm not sure there's a way to push forward scicomm without it.
@grimalkina
Just to say I think you do good work. I like to read and to listen and even if I don't always agree, I still know you're doing the work, and the analysis and the research, and at best I might have just passed through some of the environments, so my perspective is limited. I gain a lot whenever I can find the time to listen.
@hypostase thank you!! ☺️
@[email protected] What @[email protected] said - I was going to respond with something much more angry and sarcastic, but it's probably more important to reinforce there's people out there who think what you're doing is really valuable, and that I personally have appreciated the couple of occasions you've directly pointed out I'd mis- or partially understood something from your field of expertise.
Also: he was being an arse. Sorry that happened to you 😞
@mavnn @hypostase thank you 🫶 it's really not a big deal and also made me laugh. I love studies of evaluation and attribution biases because it's such a fascinating set of mechanisms and working out the contexts on which they arise is a really fun thing in social science, even though the outcomes and consequences are obviously quite serious
@[email protected] @[email protected] The weirdest part of the whole thing is that based on your longer description the headline was really an uncommonly clear and accurate description of the study. And yes, interesting study idea even if a somewhat unsurprising and depressing result.
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