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Re:E Pur Si Muove by xyzzyz on Friday December 15, 2017 @09:47PM (#15937129)
Damore didn't reference your [1] to quote that "women are neurotic", he used it to quote that "greater nation-level gender equality leads to psychological dissimilarity in men’s and women’s personality traits".

Your [2] doesn't even cite [1], and in any case, [1] has almost 800 citations, while [2] is only cited by the author herself in her other papers. Seems like a stretch to call [1] "discredited".

Re:E Pur Si Muove by bduerst on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:06PM (#15937181)
[2] is the one of the most recent criticisms of the Big Five method, which is the crux used in [1]. If [2] cited every paper that used the Big Five method incorrectly as biological factor analysis, it would be in the hundreds.

Number of citations is terrible metric to defend a paper because the reason [2] has less citations is because [2] was published 3 years ago, while [1] was published almost a decade ago.

Appeals to popularity are logic fallacies for a reason.

Re:E Pur Si Muove by xyzzyz on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:04PM (#15937545)
[1] had almost 100 citation in its first 3 years, while [2] still has no citation by anyone else other than its author. If [2] really had discredited an entire field of research, I'd imagine that anyone at all would talk about it even once.
Re:E Pur Si Muove by bduerst on Saturday December 16, 2017 @03:04PM (#15941664)
Re:E Pur Si Muove by xyzzyz on Sunday December 17, 2017 @02:36PM (#15947243)
You are bringing up paper which had literally zero impact in 3 years it's been out. Why should I waste time reading it? Clearly, no scientist who has ever read it has found it worth to even mention it. The burden to show that it is relevant is on you.