"Alternate explanations"

Via writerspleasure:

“Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation,” said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist.  “But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among [social psychologists] by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations.”

An interesting article that goes on to discuss a variety of ways in which social psychologists have allowed their dogma to misguide and distort their research.