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That was devastating to a summer camp that do so volunteer IT work for. By the time they called me, the data was long gone.

Maybe it will be a shot in arm for Wikipedia to make some needed reforms.

Yeah, I guess you're right - came out last night while I was sleeping.

I hope so, but that would require of rolling back some changes they made that led to ideological biases, which would be fought tooth and nail.

Grokipedia literally just came out a few hours ago. So this article was already in the can before they could even test it.

It's got some obvious bias right now, but some articles are already better than Wikipedia - for example on the origin of Covid. I'm not really going to trust either one of them for the foreseeable future.

It will get better. This is only version 0.1.

It's fine it this was some blog, but this is supposed to be "serious" journalism. It comes off as childish and unprofessional.

Calling people "Silicon Valley freaks" is really trashy.

Public policies were made (or justified) based on some of this research. People used this "settled science" to make consequential decisions.

Stereotype threat for example was widely used to explain test score gaps as purely environmental, which contributed to the public seeing gaps as a moral emergency that needed to be fixed, leading to affirmative action policies.

Those things were not done by awful people though - they all thought they were serving the public good. We only judge it as awful now because of the results. Nearly of these ideas (Lysenkoism I think was always fringe) were embraced by the educated elites of the time.

Is anyone tracking how much damage to society bad social science has done? I imagine it's quite a bit.