Word: opinions
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Although statisticians say the new scale willaccurately represent student opinion, somestudents have complained that the new ratingsystem does not allow for enough variation, Davidsaid. She added the decision to switch scales wasmade last year...
...What is much more insidious, however, and illustrates how a political opinion is passed off as political "science" is the classification of the Union of South Africa as a "satisfied society". In what sense were (are) 20 million Blacks "satisfied"? In 1968? Today? Note how Huntington's political opinion about the Union of South Africa being a "satisfied society" is embedded in a tissue of pseudo-science consisting of "equations," "correlations," decimal figure, "ratios," and a type of language which gives the illusion of science without any of its substance...
...Stalinists who destroyed a large part of the peasant class in the Soviet Union in the thirties, and the "forced-draft" ruralization by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (a mirror image of "forced-draft urbanization"), after the U.S. invasion of that country. Such people can have whatever political opinion they want: I do not regard these opinions as science, merely political opinions and their implementations. Note how the word "modernization" occurs in a paragraph like the above, as well as on the page with the famous "equations" and the "correlation of .50." Thus Huntington gives the illusion of setting...
...sentence, "This change in Westernpolitical life reflects the fact that thefundamental problems of the industrial revolutionhave been solved." Lipset was writing in 1960. Wasit a fact? Was it perceived as fact? By whom?When? Does Lipset or Huntington know thedifference between a fact, the perception of afact, an opinion, and what is neither? The abovesentence occurs on a page speckled with footnotes,which make it appear as if this particular opinionis rooted in scholarship. But all the footnotesdocument is the statement: "In 1960, a prevalentopinion in Western society was that thefundamental political problems of the industrialrevolution have been solved." Lipset...
...Congress moves to rollback Reagan Administration restrictions on the flow of scientific information, the University appears to have stepped up efforts to oppose the limits, which it says threaten freedom of academic inquiry and opinion...