And yet, strange to report, no matter how many Tutsi women are impaled with large objects, somehow, strangely, equality does not ensue.

Progressives find this very puzzling. Those Tutsi are just being so very stubborn, they think.

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Not related to this topic, but related to underutilized statistical technique: look up “geometric data analysis” . What’s cool about GDA is that there’s a symmetry between individuals and their characteristics/rows and columns in a table. This allows for open-ended, yet rigorous exploration of the internal correlative structure of the data. Bourdieu’s work is based in some of this, but as I said, advanced statistics is a risk, not an asset.

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Of course, this is assuming they’d validate semi-opaque number-crunchng that led to the ‘wrong’ conclusions. Until Climategate, I had some professional bitterness at how quick people were to deny the significance of quantitative analyses when they were, and I quote from countless responses from government and industry, “counter-intuitive”. I remain slack-jawed at how cheaply IPCC away with having screamed bloody murder with uncentered PCA, corrected their calculations and claimed the qualitative conclusions remained in a re-run analysis, supposedly with corrected calculations.

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Sorry, I think I forgot my fashionable cynicism at the door. The neglect people have for proper statistical manipulation is still a disappointment at life I can’t shake, even in the face of a meillassouxsian facticity horizon. There are bitter truths, horrible truths and statistics. Face tentacles and all.

Gary Brecher, their “War Nerd”, is worth looking up. The book that came out years ago isn’t excellent in scholarship, but interesting in tenor. And Brecher is actually made up; not unlike our Nick Land, John Dolan wa once a scholar in the humanities, but gravitated away from literary theory given experiences in Saudi Arabia and beyond.

(Ie. can you provide a link?)