What standard are you using to judge whether they’re correct or not?
Several. Here’s an example: do they tend to promote true ideas over false ones, even on politicized topics? Yes. It makes a lot of movement conservatives and radical environmentalists angry, but they do. This is anecdotal, but I have an easier time finding people willing to listen to my unpopular ideas amongst students and faculty than I do with my neighbors.
I’m guessing that pressed you enough, you’d wind up answering “the gate keepers (especially the ones at universities) are more-or-less doing a good job, I know this because they told me so”.
And you’d be guessing incorrectly. See the previous response. I suppose you’re working on the response to a previous comment of mine wherein I asked you to describe what you think the political atmosphere at universities to be like. I will also refer back to my first comment, wherein I asked whether or not intellectual diversity has been improving or not—I think it has been.
Several. Here’s an example: do they tend to promote true ideas over false ones, even on politicized topics? Yes. It makes a lot of movement conservatives and radical environmentalists angry, but they do. This is anecdotal, but I have an easier time finding people willing to listen to my unpopular ideas amongst students and faculty than I do with my neighbors.
And you’d be guessing incorrectly. See the previous response. I suppose you’re working on the response to a previous comment of mine wherein I asked you to describe what you think the political atmosphere at universities to be like. I will also refer back to my first comment, wherein I asked whether or not intellectual diversity has been improving or not—I think it has been.
This is what is known as circular reasoning.