I genuinely feel that ‘liberal arts’ is just like ‘communism’. In that people who don’t know both things have no idea what they’re talking about when they’re dissing them.

@skinnylatte I have talked to a lot of stem people who think the social sciences and humanities are just based on political grievances and vibes and have no real methodologies to speak of

@nautilus @skinnylatte Let me guess: a lot of them think AI is real intelligence just because it uses complete sentences? As if grammar and syntax were some kind of magic?

@nautilus @skinnylatte

This becomes really obvious when someone from the more science end of a subject like computer science ends up doing some work that ends up being closer to the humanities end. They suddenly realise that user studies are actually hard to design to control for all of the sources of bias. Or, more commonly, they don’t and just produce nonsense and then apply the wrong statistics and send it to a venue that doesn’t normally do much human-factors work and so no one notices the gross errors in methodology.

@david_chisnall @nautilus @skinnylatte (sometimes i wish to find who the fuck translated artes liberales into liberal arts and kick his pale arse from here to the la manche channel)