Dina’s Reviews > The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers > Status Update

Funny how wrongdoers immediately appeal to the freedom of speech and playing a victim whenever confronted—and that goes on for centuries. 🙄

The more I progress in learning psychology the more I find that most widely accepted concepts are unscientific bullshit concocted by egomaniac white men 😭

lol the whole frequentist stats crowd seem to have been eugenists—maybe it’s high time I switched to bayesian liberals also for ideological reasons 😄

So bizarre to think that fathers of stats couldn’t d basic model adjustment cos they haven’t invented it yet 🫠

Friedrich Gauss is such a green flag 🥹

I’d have a hard time solving the trolley problem if one of them was Francis Galton aka the daddy of eugenics but also the main concept in my job—correlation💀

I love that she doesn’t just cancel assholes but reports on their achievements while ruthlessly roasting 💀

“This was the era of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello.*
* And other artists who weren’t also Ninja Turtles.”
She’s so unserious 😆