Serious The Blackpill is Not an Ideology

[AtrociousCitizen]

that Joyce from Ireland prefers potatoes to rice ain't part of any scientific discipline. that's what it means to count data among your discipline. Concluding that potatoes are generally preferred to rice in Ireland is not raw data, it's -- as the verb suggests -- a conclusion. With that in mind let me ask you again, do you really consider data to be part of the blackpill?

But aren't conclusions a part of the scientific method? Data analysis leads to conclusions, and those conclusions are just as important in understanding a phenomenon as the raw data itself. Without conclusions, raw data is meaningless.

And to answer your question, yes, I do believe data is part of the blackpill, for instance, if I did a survey asking 100 women about their height requirements and 80 of them said they required their partners to be 6ft or taller. That would be data (the data would include both my survey responses and the results: the data that 80% of my sample size said they required 6ft or taller). The logical conclusion from that data: the majority of women require taller men.

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

Generally meanings of words are determined by consensus. It's not quite that black and white though, since most people haven't the slightest inkling what, say, mathematics really entails. Be that as it may, I think it's hard to defend the word blackpill is used in accordance with your vision, even by fellow "experts"

Fair point, I can agree with that, but it's important to mention that most words also do not have a very deep philosophical or scientific discussion behind them. A word like "Blackpill" has more to it than what is seen on the surface and to define it simply as ideology is ignoring its complexity and importance as a theory.