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8 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“I think the fact that they’re public makes a big difference because students are not paying vast sums to go to university in the first place, so students have less power.”
02 / evaluation
“I think having social norms that frown upon racism and sexism are very important and useful.”
03 / evaluation
“I think libertarians have been because they’re very rationalist and systematizing, they’re skeptical of the utility of narratives and manipulating people’s emotions.”
04 / evaluation
“It matters because people who go through elite colleges and go into the professions, particularly in journalism and law, are often trained and inculcated with these theories.”
05 / evaluation
“Another aspect is that we also have very high-skilled immigration. It’s very noticeable that our immigrant communities are filling up professions and are very hardworking, and have immediately gone into the highest income brackets because we poach a lot of very talented people from all over the world to come out to Australia.”
06 / evaluation
“I think the setting up of women’s studies departments in the 1970s was a big mistake because, if you look at other humanities disciplines, they’ve been developed over hundreds of years, and they developed scholarly foundations.”
07 / evaluation
“There are things in psychology in the therapy side of things that could be quite effective that we don’t know about because we can’t accurately measure.”
08 / evaluation
“Among transgender individuals, only a small percentage of those are activist. So it’s the tiniest minority you can think of, but they have all of this political power because they’re very noisy.”