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Ah. Looks like I’ve confused my Matthews. Apologies.

As badly as Peggy wanted to be a Yellowcoat.

Alistair Campbell is one of about a thousand people BBC News 24 and Sky News interview sometimes. The rest is him, connecting directly with the public via tweets and his own podcast. “The media”?

It's always been the same. Once you're in researcher's contacts you'll be contacted regularly.

Last week, Rory Stewart informed Campbell without breaking his earnest voice that Stormy Daniels starred in Revenge of the Dildos. It’s not about Matt and his friends but just the sort of filth they will stamp out. “Is it any good?” Campbell asked.

Real elite is fed up with this fictional new elite.

100 emails seems slim pickings given all the promotion.

Good thread of anti-Goodwin stuff on out of touch elites here.

When did busy US host Mehdi Hassan have time to critique Matt? He mentioned a Tweet in passing by an alleged sex pest blogger also on ze list

I'd call most of those on the "left" middle of the road, really. I doubt most of them are interested in pushing their party political views, even if they are particularly relevant.

No mention here of how less elite universities fare, funny that.

Why would it bother Matt that Tony Benn is still popular in Cambridge University physics departments, do they produce lefty, metropolitan science?

Does this mean that:

1. Academically gifted people are more likely to be lefties

2. Lefties are more likely to work in academia

3. Intelligence and rational thought lead to a left wing bias

4. Long march through the institutions, student union banning anyone they don't like, they pulled a statue down and burned a picture of the queen, and you can't sing Baa Baa Black Sheep any more

I think we can guess.

By the way, does he get a sweetie every time he says "elite"?

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/55893129.pdf

Title: The association of cognitive ability with right-wing ideological attitudes and prejudice: A meta-analytic review.

Abstract
The cognitive functioning of individuals with stronger endorsement of right-wing and prejudiced attitudes has elicited much scholarly interest. Whereas many studies investigated cognitive styles, less attention has been directed towards cognitive ability. Studies investigating the latter topic generally reveal lower cognitive ability to be associated with stronger endorsement of right-wing ideological attitudes and greater prejudice. However, this relationship has remained widely unrecognized in literature. The present meta-analyses revealed an average effect size of r = -.20 (CI 95%: -.23 to -.17; based on 67 studies, N = 84,017) for the relationship between cognitive ability and right-wing ideological attitudes, and an average effect size of r = -.19 (CI 95%: -.23 to -.16; based on 23 studies, N = 27, 011) for the relationship between cognitive ability and prejudice. Effect sizes did not vary significantly across different cognitive abilities and sample characteristics. The effect strongly depended on the measure used for ideological attitudes and prejudice, with the strongest effect sizes for authoritarianism and ethnocentrism. We conclude that cognitive ability is an important factor in the genesis of ideological attitudes and prejudice, and thus should become more central in theorizing and model-building.

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:53 pm Why would it bother Matt that Tony Benn is still popular in Cambridge University physics departments, do they produce lefty, metropolitan science?

Don't give him ideas.

I wonder how long before he links this to believing in climate change and Covid.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:24 pm

By the way, does he get a sweetie every time he says "elite"?

It's the only way he can make his enemies sound powerful. "Young woman who teaches Virgil's Eclogues for not very much money" is the reality for lots of these sinister puppetmasters.

The right wing academics are probably egghead neoliberal economists who haven’t devoted as much time as Matt to studying woke storylines in Eastenders. Or counting black actors in Midsomer Murders.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:18 pm I'd call most of those on the "left" middle of the road, really. I doubt most of them are interested in pushing their party political views, even if they are particularly relevant.

No mention here of how less elite universities fare, funny that.

It does look uncannily like a normal distribution curve that someone has decided to arbitrarily place the median line somewhere other than the median.

If he wants to talk politically motivated manipulation of academic methodology, he could start there.