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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Mandel, Igor
Affiliations: Redviser Inc., Fair Lawn, NJ, USA | E-mail: [email protected]
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Redviser Inc., Fair Lawn, NJ, USA. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Recent renaming of the R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship without official discussion among members of American Statistical Association (ASA), along with other events of similar type, was an important step in creating a new atmosphere in science in general. On the one hand, this is tightly related to such critical issues as freedom of speech, research and opinion, while on the other hand, it is related to conformity, yielding to irrelevant demand, and to denial of evidence as a first basic principle in science. The paper shows that a) all accusations against R. Fisher are factually groundless; b) the decision was motivated not by the facts, but by political and moral pressure, connected with allegedly “institutional racism” of the American society and the US police specifically; c) the decision was a natural consequence of the victimhood culture, which penetrates more and more into academia; d) this culture, in turn, is counter-scientific in a sense that it does not need any evidence; e) particularly, the most popular current thesis about “police bias against black people” – which seems a direct real trigger of the lecture renaming – cannot be confirmed by available data. Showing all that, the paper could be considered a warning against dangerous social tendencies in modern science in general and statistics in particular.
Keywords: R. Fisher Award and Lectureship, victimhood culture, statistics, science, police use of force, institutional racism, eugenics, crime statistics
DOI: 10.3233/MAS-200495
Journal: Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 181-195, 2020
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